Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A supervisor especially of an examination or dormitory in a school.
  • transitive verb To supervise (an examination).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is employed to manage the affairs of another; a procurator.
  • noun Specifically, a person employed to manage another's cause in a court of civil or ecclesiastical law, as in the court of admiralty or a spiritual court.
  • noun One of the representatives of the clergy in the Convocations of the two provinces of Canterbury and York in the Church of England. They are elected by the cathedral chapters and the clergy of a diocese or an archdeaconry.
  • noun An official in a university or college whose function it is to see that good order is kept. In the universities of Oxford and Cambridge the proctors are two officers chosen from among the masters of arts.
  • noun A keeper of a spital-house; a liar.
  • noun One who collected alms for lepers or others unable to beg in person.
  • To manage as an attorney or pleader.
  • To hector; swagger; bully. Forby, quoted in Halliwell.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.
  • noun obsolete 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.
  • noun (Eng. Law) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
  • noun (Ch. of Eng.) A representative of the clergy in convocation.
  • noun An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US 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.
  • noun UK An official at any of several older universities
  • noun UK, law A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts
  • verb US To function as a proctor.
  • verb transitive To manage as an attorney or agent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)
  • noun someone who supervises (an examination)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English procutor, proctour, university officer, manager, from procuratour; see procurator.]

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  • This is my doctor's name. Seriously.

    October 5, 2007

  • If he administers the med school boards, he becomes Proctor Proctor. Even worse, if he gives a rectal exam, he's Protologist Proctor.

    October 5, 2007

  • In Florida there's a clinic for a Dr. Doctor. Doctor Ron Doctor.

    October 5, 2007

  • She's a woman, burntsox. But not a proctologist or, for that matter, a proctor--at least that I know about. :-)

    October 5, 2007

  • And, let it be said, if s/he gives a medical board exam about that particular medical specialty, s/he is the Proctologist Proctor Proctor.

    October 5, 2007

  • That's Proctologist Proctor Doctor Proctor to you.

    October 6, 2007

  • Major Major Major Major

    (cookie to the first person to get that)

    October 6, 2007

  • Catch 22, of course. Love that book.

    Chocolate chip, please.

    October 6, 2007

  • Dammit, I wanted the cookie! Stop hogging, RT!!

    *sigh* It would have been a real feather in my cap.

    October 6, 2007

  • *sigh* Arby, would you kindly give my cookie to chained_bear here?

    *rolling eyes histrionically*

    October 6, 2007

  • Now, now, children. There's plenty to go around.

    *hands out cookies to rt & c_b*

    PS - is it Catch-22 with the "feather in my cap"/"shot in the arm" running joke? I can never remember where that came from!!

    October 6, 2007

  • I'm going to let chained_bear answer that.

    *folds arms stubbornly*

    Oh, and thanks for the cookie. :-)

    October 6, 2007

  • I thought it was "feather in my cap" and "black eye." I don't remember the "shot in the arm," but it does seem to fit... I need to reread that book. My God, it's awesome.

    *munches cookie*

    October 10, 2007

  • In petitions of divorce, or for declaration of nullity of marriage, the Queen's Proctor may, under direction of the Attorney General, intervene in the suit for the purpose of arguing any question that the court deems expedient to have argued. i.e. A professional, government-sponsored busy-body.

    May 9, 2008

  • Rot-corpse Sumatran art amuses proctor.

    October 18, 2008