provost

Meanings

Noun

• One placed in charge: a head, a chief, particularly:
• A senior deputy, a superintendent, particularly:
• A provost cell: a military cell or prison.

Verb

• To be delivered to a provost marshal for punishment.

Related

Similar words

• See dean
• president, dean
• See mayor
• prepositus
• See steward
• See viceroy
• See governor
• See reeve
• See prefect and praetor

Origin

• From Middle English, from late Old English profost, from Late Latin prōpositus, variant of Latin praepositus ("[one] placed in command"). In some senses, via Anglo-Norman provolt &c.; via Anglo-Norman and Old French provost (modern French prévôt). As a Central European ecclesiastical office, via German Propst, Danish provst, &c.