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invigilator

invigilator \invigilator\ n. someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating. [British]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
invigilator

1892, agent noun from invigilate.

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invigilator

n. 1 (context chiefly UK or archaic English) A person who supervises students during an examination; a proctor 2 (context chiefly UK or archaic English) A person who supervises a gallery at a museum.

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invigilator

n. someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating

Usage examples of "invigilator".

Both the Pursuivant and the Invigilator had Reading, though not at any great distance.

We were not within Reading distance by the Pursuivant and Invigilator yet, and I wanted the first encounter over before they tried to Read me and failed.

Beside the Pursuivant rode a Witch in tawdry finery, and next to her an Invigilator, lean in form-fitting leathers painted with cat stripes.

The Invigilator has something dangerous in his pocket, however, something to make you helpless.

The Pursuivant went down, skewered, even as my pombi claws swept the Invigilator from his saddle.

The Invigilator, wearing the mysterious contrivance, played himself, though with only such verve as we ordered him to display.

It was as well I did so, for the Invigilator had fallen into some kind of a trance, and Chance could not make him move or speak.

No, the Invigilator had simply been caught in his own trap, but I mourned nonetheless that his body lived while his mind was gone.

So we camped, Chance, the idiot Invigilator, and I, with me doing the cooking.

Chance amused himself by having the Invigilator make the fire and gather firewood.

If Riddle had wanted you to raise up the dead in this place without knowing what you were doing, might he not have arranged for you to be put into that strange cap the Invigilator carried?

I gave Riddle my hand and bade him farewell, putting the Invigilator in his care.

I intended to come back the following night, perhaps, to take the cap from him before he lapsed into emptiness as the Invigilator had done in Xammer.

There was an Invigilator among them who, while not quite as thorough in pursuit as a Pursuivant might be, was nonetheless to be reckoned with.

Preservation of the belief system which supported the tranquil, unchanging culture of Haven was the particular duty of the scrutators, who reported to the Invigilator, an officer of the Tribunal, the body that assured the continuation of the traditions of Haven.