procuration

noun procurations

1. countable, uncountable The act of procuring; procurement. For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration
2. countable, uncountable The management of another's affairs.
3. countable, uncountable The instrument by which someone is empowered to transact another's affairs; a proxy. it was true he had registered my will, and put in his claim; and could he have given any account of my being dead or alive, he would have acted by procuration, and taken possession of the ingenio (so they call the sugar-house), and have given his son, who was now at the Brazils, orders to do it.
4. countable, uncountable A document giving someone such power Here we finished our matters of money, and I delivered into his hands seven thousand eight hundred pistoles in bills and money, a copy of an assignment on the townhouse of Paris for four thousand pistoles, at 3 per cent, interest, attested, and a procuration for receiving the interest half-yearly; b
5. countable, uncountable A sum of money formerly paid to the bishop, archbishop, or archdeacon, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visit; called also proxy. Master John Huss, formed bachelor of divinity; by the commission of whose procuration, it is evident enough, unto me, the public notary within written, that he, knocking at the porch or gate of the archbishop's court aforesaid, required that either the said Master John Huss, or that he, in the name
6. countable, uncountable Pimping. Procuration and also living on the proceeds of prostitution may be morally abominable methods of securing a livelihood, though even here, as in most other offences, there may be circumstances of palliation in individual cases.