Proctor
['prɒktə] or ['prɑktɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.
(n.) A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar.
(n.) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
(n.) A representative of the clergy in convocation.
(n.) An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
(v. t.) To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.
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Definition
n. a procurator or manager for another: an attorney in the spiritual courts: a representative of the clergy in Convocation: an official in the English universities who attends to the morals of the students and enforces university regulations.—ns. Proc′torage Proc′torship.—adj. Proctō′rial pertaining to a proctor: magisterial.—v.t. Proc′torise (slang) in the English universities to summon before a proctor.
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Examples
- On Lady Verinder's death, the Will was placed in the hands of my proctor to be proved (as the phrase is) in the usual way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr Lightwood explained that he came from the proctor's, with whom he had been engaged in transacting Mr Boffin's affairs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All this looked tolerably expensive, I thought, and gave me an agreeable notion of a proctor's business. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I happened to be looking in at my friend the proctor's office, and I observed that he received me with an appearance of greater interest than usual. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You are to be a proctor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The proctors employ the advocates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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