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provisour

provisour is the obsolete form of provisor.

Meaning of provisor

Noun

provisor (plural provisors)

  1. A deputy of a Roman Catholic bishop.
    • The trials were prompt and at the rendering of sentence a consulta de fe or assembly of experts was convoked, consisting of lawyers and the provisor of the bishopric, thus recognizing the necessity of concurrent action on the part of the episcopal jurisdiction.1906, Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of Spain, volume 1, New York: MacMillan, page 163
  2. The holder of a papal provision.
  3. One who provides; a purveyor.

Forms of provisour

pluralprovisours

Questions about provisour

What is provisour the obsolete form of?
Provisour is the obsolete form of provisor.

Words near provisour in the dictionary

  1. provisors
  2. provisorship
  3. provisorships
  4. provisory
  5. provisos
  6. provisour
  7. provisours
  8. provitamin
  9. provitaminic
  10. provitamins
  11. proviverrine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: provisour (page history and authors); provisor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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