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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proctor \Proc"tor\, v. t.
To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or
agent.
--Bp. Warburton.
Proctor \Proc"tor\, n. [OE. proketour, contr. fr. procurator. See Procurator.] One who is employed to manage to affairs of another. Specifically:
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. [Obs.]
--Nares.(Eng. Law) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
--Wharton.(Ch. of Eng.) A representative of the clergy in convocation.
An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., contraction of procurator (c.1300) "steward or manager of a household;" also "a provider" (see procurator). From late 14c. as "one who acts or speaks for another; spokesman, advocate;" early 15c. as "business manager or financial administrator of a church, college, holy order, etc."
1670s, from proctor (n.). Related: Proctored; proctoring.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) 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. 2 (context UK English) An official at any of several older university 3 (context British legal English) A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts 4 (context obsolete English) One appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, such as lepers and the bedridden. vb. 1 (context US English) To function as a proctor. 2 (context transitive English) To manage as an attorney or agent.
WordNet
n. someone who supervises (an examination) [syn: monitor]
v. as of students taking an exam, to prevent cheating [syn: invigilate]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1246
Land area (2000): 3.025155 sq. miles (7.835114 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.025155 sq. miles (7.835114 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52630
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.743213 N, 92.225553 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55810
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Wikipedia
Proctor, a variant of the word procurator, is a person who takes charge of, or acts for, another. The word "proctor" is frequently used to describe someone who oversees an examination or dormitory.
The title is used in England in three principal contexts:
- In law, a proctor is an attorney or solicitor acting in some courts.
- In the church, a proctor represents the clergy in Church of England dioceses.
- In education, a proctor is
- the name of university officials in certain universities, or
- a supervisor or invigilator during an exam.
Proctor is the remnant of a lunar crater that is located to the southeast of the prominent crater Tycho. It lies just to the north of the huge walled plain Maginus. To the north is the crater Saussure and to the northwest, just to the east of Tycho, lies Pictet. Proctor is 52 kilometers in diameter and its walls are 1,300 meters high. It is from the Pre-Imbrian period, which lasted from 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago.
The outer rim of this crater has become heavily worn and eroded, and now forms a low, irregular rise around the interior floor. Much of the northwestern half of the rim is marked by a number of small craters, including Proctor D. The interior floor is somewhat level and is marked only by a few tiny impacts.
The crater is named after the 20th-century American astronomy writer Mary Proctor.
A proctor is an overseer in an academic setting. It may also refer to:
Proctor Crater is a large crater in the Noachis quadrangle of Mars, located at 48° south latitude and 330.5° west longitude. It is in diameter and was named after Richard A. Proctor, a British astronomer (1837–1888). The crater contains a 35 x 65 km dark dune field. It was one of the first sand dune fields ever recognized on Mars based on Mariner 9 images. The crater's dunes are being monitored by HiRISE to identify changes over time.
Usage examples of "proctor".
There are no proctors, no bulldogs, no bursers, no deans, no morning and evening chapel, no quads, no surplices, no caps and gowns.
He wanted to wear the palest blue coat of the Empire Youth, or the light blue bemedaled uniform of a Proctor, or even the rust-colored tunic of a helper.
As Sergeant Cartman had just said, the crosshatch indicating the location of the ELF beacon worn by Chief Proctor Levin had disappeared shortly after he had been spotted by Flight One.
General Court voted in October that the conviction and attainders of George Burroughs, John Proctor, George Jacobs, John Willard, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth How, Mary Easty, Sarah Wildes, Abigail Hobbs, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Martha Carrier, Abigail Faulkner, Anne Foster, Rebecca Eames, Mary Post, Mary Lacey, Mary Bradbury, and Dorcas Hoar be reversed.
Perhaps Proctor Lake was a breeding site, revisited year after year by hypsilophodont families.
All were assembled, and all were on their feet now: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Pottscamp, Northprophet, Dobowski, Quickcrafter, Haddad, Chezem, Treva, Goldgopher, Chu, Sykes, Fabelo, Dulldoggle, Potter, Landmaster, Salver, Stoimenof, all the high dukes of Astrobe, half a dozen former world presidents, the tall scientists and mind-men, the world designers.
The Big Ones had Thomas up on the carpet the next morning: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Chezem, Pottseamp, Wot-tle, Northprophet.
One of the tenets of collectivist theory was that individuals should be willing to make sacrifices for the greater good of society, so when the Proletariate decided that Coyote needed the talents of James Alonzo Garcia, he awoke one morning to find all his lines of credit frozen, his travel permits denied, his contacts no longer willing to answer the phone, and a Patriarch and two Proctors waiting in his office with an offer that he could not refuse.
In the living room, Proctor began to overturn furniture, tear paintings from the walls, and smash bibelots, further developing the scenario that would lead the police away from any consideration that the intruder might have been other than a common drug-pumped thug.
Proctor began to overturn furniture, tear paintings from the walls, and smash bibelots, further developing the scenario that would lead the police away from any consideration that the intruder might have been other than a common drug-pumped thug.
His thesis supervisor lost a right hand for stealing it from him when, a year later, Harun followed up with his famous paper on tauon decay and it was realized by the proctors that both brilliant concepts could only have come from the same luminous mind.
The legal side of the transaction was placed in the hands of one Jolly, a proctor at the Chatelet in Paris.
Oxford, the peace of study could for a long time be preserved only by chusing annually one of the Proctors from each side of the Trent.
There are no proctors, no bulldogs, no bursers, no deans, no morning and evening chapel, no quads, no surplices, no caps and gowns.
At Pendergast’s request Proctor, his chauffeur, had delivered a variety of items from the Dakota apartment: a small table, a Tiffany lamp, and an array of medicines, unguents, and French chocolates, along with a stack of obscure books and maps.