prolocutor

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Dr. Twiss, an eminent and learned Presbyterian clergyman, the prolocutor of the assembly of divines, died in London in 1646.

From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown

He was chosen prolocutor to the Convocation from 1623-4.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

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 Archer, William

Not Hermes, prolocutor to the gods, Could use persuasions more pathetical.

From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Marlowe, Christopher

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 Hazlitt, William Carew