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Proctor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In a general sense, one who is employed to manage the affairs of another.

2. Appropriately, a person employed to manage another's cause in a court of civil or ecclesiastical law, as in the court of admiralty, or in a spiritual court.

3. The magistrate of a university.

Proctor [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To manage; a cant word.

Proctor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.

2. 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.

3. An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.

4. A representative of the clergy in convocation.

5. An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.

Proctor [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.

Proctor Encyclopedia Britannica

PROCTOR, the English form of the Latin procurator, denotes a person who acts for another, and so approaches very nearly in meaning to Agent (j.v.). The word is used in three senses. (1) A particular kind of university official. (2) A representative of the clergy in convocation. A proctor represents either the chapter of a cathedral or the beneficed clergy of a diocese. In the province of Canterbury two proctors represent the clergy of each diocese; in that of York there are two for each archdeaconry. In both alike each chapter is represented by one. (3) A practitioner in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts. A proctor is a qualified person licensed by the archbishop of Canterbury to undertake duties such as are performed in other courts by solicitors. The word in this sense is now only of historical interest. The effect of recent legislation is that all the business formerly confined to proctors may now be conducted by solicitors. The instrument by which a procurator or proctor is appointed is called a proxy, a term also applied to the representative himself. Proxies are still in use in bankruptcy and in some of the ViceAdmiralty Courts. Formerly peers could give their vote in parliament by proxy, but this right was discontinued by the standing order of March 31, 1868. A shareholder in a joint-stock company may vote by proxy. A proxy must, by the Stamp Act, 1870, bear a penny stamp....

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 19, p. 792
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Proctorage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Management; in contempt.

Proctorage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt.

Proctorial [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.

Proctorical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Belonging to the academical proctor; magisterial.

Proctorical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Proctorial.

Proctorship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The office or dignity of the proctor of a university.

Proctorship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office.