Definition of Proveditor. Meaning of Proveditor. Synonyms of Proveditor

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Definition of Proveditor

Proveditor
Proveditor Pro*ved"i*tor, n. [It. proveditore, provveditore, fr. provedere, L. providere. See Provide, and cf. Purveyor, Provedore.] One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another. --Jer. Taylor.

Meaning of Proveditor from wikipedia

- The Italian title prov[v]editore (plural provveditori; also known in Gr****: προνοητής, προβλεπτής; Serbo-Croatian: providur), "he who sees to things" (overseer)...
- island. In 1574–77, Crete was under the rule of Giacomo Foscarini as Proveditor General, Sindace and Inquisitor. According to Starr's 1942 article, the...
- made in 1700, when the government of Venice ordered Francesco Grimani, Proveditor General of the Armies in Morea, to register all their properties in the...
- The Portuguese Ombudsman is called the Provedor de Justiça [pt] (lit. "Proveditor of Justice"), and its role is defined in article 23 of the Constitution...
- stronghold of Corfu was protected (according to a dispatch of Antonio Priuli, proveditor generale da ... Morea would prove to be, for they were bulwarks against...
- Padua, aided by detachments of Venetian cavalry under the command of the proveditor Andrea Gritti, revolted. The landsknechts garrisoning the city were too...
- ten-thousand-man army under Gedik Ahmed Pasha; however, the local garrison led by proveditor Pietro Vetturi fended off the Ottoman besiegers, who retreated after the...
- were closely related to the Venetian ones in Albania. Gabriel Trivisano, proveditor of Venice in Albania, includes Span in the group of the Albanian nobles...
- Venetian Republic with the name of Patria del Friuli, ruled by a General Proveditor or a Luogotenente living in Udine. In 1523 Emperor Charles V ultimately...
- refortified. On June 10, 1570 the castle of Sopot was taken by James Celsi, Proveditor of the Venetian navy, who left after leaving in charge the commander of...