proctor

n. [ OE. proketour, contr. fr. procurator. See Procurator. ] 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. ] Nares. (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. Wharton. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. t. To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. “The fogging proctorage of money.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Proctorial. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]