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English (Cumbria and West Yorkshire)
English (Cumbria and West Yorkshire) : variant spelling of Proctor.
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British, English, German, Italian
Form of Edward; Rich Guardian; Proctor of Wealth
Boy/Male
Latin
Manager.
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English (northern)
English (northern) : occupational name from Middle English prok(e)tour ‘steward’ (reduced from Old French procurateour, Latin procurator ‘agent’, from procurare ‘to manage’). The term was used most commonly of an attorney in a spiritual court, but also of other officials such as collectors of taxes and agents licensed to collect alms on behalf of lepers and enclosed orders of monks.John Proctor (d. 1757) was a prominent citizen of Boston, MA, and is buried in the King’s Chapel Burying Ground there.
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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.
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An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
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Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt.
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An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
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One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.
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Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.
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The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another.
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The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office.
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A assistant proctor.
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An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
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Proctorial.
v. t.
To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.
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Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor.
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A representative of the clergy in convocation.
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One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor.
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The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.