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.

Related words: (words related to PROCURATOR)

• 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.