Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating or pertaining to a proctor, especially a university proctor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a proctor or to the office of proctorship.

Etymologies

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proctor +‎ -ial

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Examples

  • At Louvain there was a kind of proctorial walk undertaken by the University official known as the

    Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

  • Sources said the Commission would also recommend changing the proctorial law of the universities because the law is not suitable to face uncalled for situations.

    Dhaka University campus in August :- Judicial probe body submits report Oct 22: Ban on campus politi 2007

  • Proctors, it will be borne in mind, are sketched by Charles Dickens in the opening pages of _David Copperfield_, for Dora's papa, Mr. Spenlow, was in proctorial partnership with the reputably inexorable

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

  • I observed, however, that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the man who was gradually becoming more and more etherealized in my eyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed to me to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like a little lighthouse in a sea of stationery.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • Imaginatively, I shall don proctorial robes, and armed with a duster, saunter up and down the library, putting to each poet as I meet him the once dreaded question, 'Sir, are you a member of this

    Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891

  • There was a grand party of Dons at the Deanery, and as they hung their togas in the hall (for they couldn't conveniently dine in them) there was filched from each proctorial sleeve that marvellous little triangular survival of a stole which nobody can explain, and all these collectively were nailed on the Dean's outer door in a star.

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

  • There had been no treason whatever in the office; neither had anything come out through the proctorial firm in York, or Sir Walter

    Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

  • I observed, however, that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the man who was gradually becoming more and more etherealized in my eyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed to me to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like a little lighthouse in a sea of stationery.

    David Copperfield 1850

  • I observed, however, that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the man who was gradually becoming more and more etherealized in my eyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed to me to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like a little lighthouse in a sea of stationery.

    David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841

  • Prof Mahdi added that the new batch of students has been provided with phone numbers of teachers and proctorial board members with instructions to call in case of emergency as well as report any incident of ragging.

    The Times of India 2010

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