prolocutor
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Why has Mr. Wells partly goaded and partly hypnotized himself into the belief that he is the predestined prolocutor of a new hocus-pocus?
From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by William Archer
Ulysses, a dwarf, and the prolocutor for the Grecians, gave me leave, that am a pigmy, to do an embassage to you from the cranes.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
This prolocutor, also, was generally the author of a sketch of the piece; but the actors were not confined to the mere outline which he had furnished.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
Not Hermes, prolocutor to the gods, Could use persuasions more pathetical.
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe
The Lower House of Convocation elected him prolocutor.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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