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 auniversity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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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