Word Meanings - PROCURATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. Chaucer. Shak.
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- ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - 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. - AGENT
Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj. - SPECIALLY
1. In a special manner; partcularly; especially. Chaucer. 2. For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned. - PROCTORICAL
Proctorial. - MATTERLESS
1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial. - GENERALLY
1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a - SPECIALISM
Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism. - SPECIALIZATION
The setting spart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function. Darwin. (more info) 1. The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized. - SPECIALIZE
To supply with an organ or organs having a special function or functions. (more info) 1. To mention specialy; to particularize. 2. To apply to some specialty or limited object; to assign to a specific use; as, specialized knowledge. - ANOTHER
1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks, - AGENTSHIP
Agency. Beau. & Fl. - SPECIALIST
One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. - SPECIALITY
See SPECIES (more info) 1. A particular or peculiar case; a particularity. Sir M. Hale. - MATTER-OF-FACT
Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry. - MATTERY
1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson. - ANOTHER-GAINES
Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney. - SPECIALTY
A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified. Chitty. Bouvier. Wharton . Let specialties be therefore drawn between us. Shak. 4. That for which a person - INTERAGENT
An intermediate agent. - UNSPECIALIZED
Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks. - ESPECIALNESS
The state of being especial. - PROPROCTOR
A assistant proctor. Hook. - SMATTERER
One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist. - SUBJECT-MATTER
The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science - SMATTERING
A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton. - SUBAGENT
A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty. - SELF-AFFAIRS
One's own affairs; one's private business. Shak.