Word Meanings - PROCTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity. Wharton. A representative of the clergy in convocation. An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.

Related words: (words related to PROCTOR)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• COULD
  Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• BEGGAR
  1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. 2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. 3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. 4. One who assumes in argument
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• THEMSELVES
  The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself.
• NARES
  The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• BULLBEGGAR
  Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort .
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.