Word Meanings - PROCTORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.

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• MAGISTERIALITY
  Magisterialness; authoritativeness. Fuller.
• 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.
• ACADEMICIAN
  1. A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. 2. A collegian. Chesterfield.
• PROCTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.
• MAGISTERIAL
  Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2. Syn. -- Authoritative; stately; august; pompous; dignified; lofty; commanding; imperious; lordly; proud; haughty; domineering; despotic; dogmatical; arrogant.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PROCTORICAL
  Proctorial.
• ACADEMICISM
  1. A tenet of the Academic philosophy. 2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
• ACADEMICALLY
  In an academical manner.
• MAGISTERIALNESS
  The quality or state of being magisterial.
• MAGISTERIALLY
  In a magisterial manner.
• ACADEMICALS
  The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
• PROCTORSHIP
  The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. Clarendon.
• ACADEMIC
  1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume. 2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
• ACADEMIC; ACADEMICAL
  1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy. 2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses."
• PROPROCTOR
  A assistant proctor. Hook.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach