proctor
proctor is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One who is employed to manage to affairs of another. Specifically: (a) 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. (b) (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. (c) (Ch. of Eng.) A representative of the clergy in convocation. (d) An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
- 2.To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent. Bp. Warburton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accessory
- adviser
- advocate
- agent
- ambassador
- arbitrator
- assistant
- association
- attache
- attorney
- auctioneer
- bagman
- bailiff
- banco
- bar
- barrister
- beagle
- bencher
- broker
- business
- call
- charge
- civilian
- clerk
- commercial
- commissary
- commission
- commissionaire
- commissioner
- committee
- consignee
- consul
- consult
- conveyancer
- corps
- correspondent
- counsel
- court
- curator
- cursitor
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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