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proxy
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Word definitions for proxy in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Procuration \Proc`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. procuratio: cf. F. procuration. See Procure .] The act of procuring; procurement. The management of another's affairs. The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy. (Ch. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A proxy is an agent or substitute authorized to act for another person or a document which authorizes the agent so to act, and may also be used in the following contexts: Proxy abuse (or vicarious abuse), abuse committed on behalf of somebody else Proxy ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy. n. 1 An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person. 2 The authority to act for another, especially when written. 3 The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., proccy , prokecye , "agency of one who acts instead of another; letter of power of attorney," contraction of Anglo-French procuracie (c.1300), from Medieval Latin procuratia "administration," from Latin procuratio "a caring for, management," ...
Usage examples of proxy.
In October the princess Louisa, youngest daughter of his Britannic majesty, was married by proxy, at Hanover, to the prince-royal of Denmark, who met her at Altona, and conducted her to Copenhagen.
This being a state occasion, at least by proxy, every woman attending the festivities wore a stola, and every man a toga, and I was pleased that my sartor had insisted on making one of those for me.
The English were sending Lord Harcourt to Strelitz immediately and as soon as he arrived the proxy ceremony was to take place, and immediately it was over she was to sail for England.
She treats the roiling, surging channels of superconductivity far below as she formerly did the highways and byways of the Net, as yet another domain to rule by proxy, by subroutine, by force of will.
The man eligible for promotion from the novices or uninitiates was almost invariably in attendance, but if his presence could not be secured--say, because he was in gaol, in Longridge Barracks, or at the Cascades--he was admitted by proxy, the proxy, one of the initiates, being compelled to administer the rite to the newly-elected at the earliest opportunity.
Each new self-portrait is yet another stylization of fetishized femininity, one more prosthetic proxy for an unpresentable self.
Hawk had concluded the deal with David and Abraham Solomon which relied on her shares and proxy in the new conglomerate for him to be chairman.
They packed her clothes, all except for the tracksuit Barbs wore for skydiving, and the dress she had worn to Blackpool when Penny and Kate had to be her proxies on the Big Max.
He tends to the needs of three brothels owned by Cedarbird through a proxy company.
I took the liberty of interviewing an expert on Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy over the phone.
As Elkland outlines Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy for Colin, Metz thinks back to his original ex parte motion, lobbed at the judge for the hell of it, but clearly now an unconscious stroke of genius.
Isolating the child from the mother is the way Munchausen by Proxy is usually detected by mental-health professionals.
Metz does at his big-city firm, I still have not had a chance to research Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
Out of those five or six hundred patients, how many have you personally diagnosed with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy?
The perpetrators of Munchausen by Proxy traditionally have an emotionally distant childhood, which Mariah White did not have.