Word Meanings - PROCTORSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. Clarendon.

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• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PROCTOR
  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. Nares. An officer employed in admiralty
• PROCTORAGE
  Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. "The fogging proctorage of money." Milton.
• PROCTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• PROCTORICAL
  Proctorial.
• DIGNITY
  digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• CLARENDON
  A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes. Note: This line is in nonpareil Clarendon.
• PROCTORSHIP
  The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. Clarendon.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• PROPROCTOR
  A assistant proctor. Hook.
• INDIGNITY
  Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. How might a prince of my great hopes forget So
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• CONDIGNITY
  Merit, acguired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.
• UNDEROFFICER
  A subordinate officer.
• OVEROFFICE
  To domineer over by virtue of office. Shak.