noun. A supervisor especially of an examination or dormitory in a school.

transitive verb. To supervise (an examination).

noun. One who is employed to manage the affairs of another; a procurator.

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

noun. One of the representatives of the clergy in the Convocations of the two provinces of Canterbury and York in the Church of England. They are elected by the cathedral chapters and the clergy of a diocese or an archdeaconry.

noun. An official in a university or college whose function it is to see that good order is kept. In the universities of Oxford and Cambridge the proctors are two officers chosen from among the masters of arts.

noun. A keeper of a spital-house; a liar.

noun. One who collected alms for lepers or others unable to beg in person.

To manage as an attorney or pleader.

To hector; swagger; bully. Forby, quoted in Halliwell.

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

noun. 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.

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

noun. A representative of the clergy in convocation.

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

noun. A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student.

noun. An official at any of several older universities

noun. A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts

verb. To function as a proctor.

verb. To manage as an attorney or agent.

verb. watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)

noun. someone who supervises (an examination)

"I call the proctor again and guess what, the PC now had to be restarted."

proctors' dogs  

proctorial  proctorship  

follow  keep an eye on  observe  watch  watch over  

Doctor  Dr  Dr.  doctor  dr  

Richardson  Stanfield  Wilkinson  attorney-general  biever  

Big Brother  MC  advocate  agent  amicus curiae  

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