Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In English universities, an assistant proctor.

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

  • noun A assistant proctor.

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  • noun UK An assistant proctor in a university.

Etymologies

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pro- +‎ proctor

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Examples

  • In your paternal capacity as proproctor what a great deal of trouble you appear to have had.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

  • They had a very comfortable, aspect, -- a wainscoted parlor and bedroom, as nice and cosey as a bachelor could desire, with a good collection of theological books; and on a peg hung his gown, with a red border about it, denoting him to be a proproctor.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • They had a very comfortable, aspect, -- a wainscoted parlor and bedroom, as nice and cosey as a bachelor could desire, with a good collection of theological books; and on a peg hung his gown, with a red border about it, denoting him to be a proproctor.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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