prolocutor

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Olivia undertook to be our prolocutor, and delivered the whole in the summary way, only saying, "We were thrown from our horses."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

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

From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Marlowe, Christopher

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

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

The Lower House of Convocation elected him prolocutor.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron