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Proctor   /prˈɑktər/   Listen
noun
Proctor  n.  One who is employed to manage to affairs of another. Specifically:
(a)
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. (Obs.)
(b)
(Eng. Law) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
(c)
(Ch. of Eng.) A representative of the clergy in convocation.
(d)
An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.



verb
Proctor  v. t.  To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Proctor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tilliedrum. The "pony" had seen better days than the cart, and always looked as if he were just on the point of succeeding in running away from it. Hooky Crewe was driver—so called because an iron hook was his substitute for a right arm. Robbie Proctor, the blacksmith, made the hook and fixed it in. Crewe suffered from rheumatism, and when he felt it coming on he stayed at home. Sometimes his cart came undone in a snow-drift; when Hooky, extricated from the fragments by some chance wayfarer, was deposited ...
— Auld Licht Idyls • J.M. Barrie

... back to good old Proctor's Where a man may quench his thirst, Where a purser with a shilling Needn't feel he is accursed By an ironclad owners' ship rule That her officers shouldn't drink— Anywhere the ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson

... that," he quickly replied, "it is true he could not believe it." In effect Marly was preserved and kept up; and it is the Cardinal Fleury, with his collegiate proctor's avarice, who has stripped it of its river, which was its ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon

... at this insulting mention of his wife's name, but the song was now ringing around him, and, sinking back, he, too, raised his unsteady voice. Again and again the words were madly shouted; and then, dashing his empty glass against the marble mantel, Proctor swore he would not drink another drop. What a picture of degradation! Disordered hair, soiled clothes, flushed, burning cheeks, glaring eyes, and nerveless hands. Eugene attempted to rise, but fell back in his chair, tearing off his cravat, which seemed to suffocate ...
— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans

... there was another visit to Doctors' Commons, and a great to-do with an attesting hostler, who, being inebriated, declined swearing anything but profane oaths, to the great scandal of a proctor and surrogate. Next week, there were more visits to Doctors' Commons, and there was a visit to the Legacy Duty Office besides, and there were treaties entered into, for the disposal of the lease ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens


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