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noun

Procuration n.

The act of procuring; procurement.

The management of another's affairs.

The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.

(Ch. of Eng.) A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; called also proxy.

Procuration money (Law), money paid for procuring a loan.

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"Procuration" Quotes from Famous Books

... now that I was myself delivered from danger, had I reason to regard the future of my beloved with apprehensions less acute? No. The horrid scheme which the trapper's story had disclosed in respect to her sister—might not she, too, be the victim of a similar procuration? O heaven! it was too painfully probable. The more I dwelt upon it, the more probable ...

— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... to him; and the two friends immediately wrote to the duke requesting as much. The duke apparently acquiesced in all that was desired; but he said that the illness of his sister, the Duchess of Urbino, delayed the procuration of the papers, which, it seems, were chiefly in her hands. The upshot was, that the papers did not come; and Tasso, with a mixture of rage and fear, and perhaps for more reasons than he has told, ...

— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt

... Paris I leave instructions for ze procuration of a passport over Lombardy. Am I not Antonio Pericles Agriolopoulos? Sing, ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith