单词 | proctorial |
释义 | proctorialadj. 1. Of or relating to a university proctor (proctor n.1 5). ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [adjective] > proctor proctoral1573 proctorly1601 procuratorial1663 proctorical1715 proctorial1785 1785 R. Polwhele Follies of Oxf. 11 Yet than Proctorial Frowns still worse His Schemes perhaps make Work for Nourse; And by a double Doom secur'd He sighs, in College Walls immur'd. 1844 Times 22 Apr. 6/2 Not long since the cycle of the proctors, as, I believe it is called, was proposed to be altered and enlarged, and a more equal distribution made of the proctorial honours. 1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah iii. 67 The condition of Oxford or Cambridge on the night of a grand Proctorial raid! 1881 Nature 17 Feb. 377/2 He..shall have proctorial authority over members of the University. 1967 D. Potter Stand up Nigel Barton 61 What is far more serious—unpardonable, in fact—is that you gave a false name to the proctorial office. 1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde iii. 58 Jowett then offered him the choice of being sent down quietly or facing a proctorial inquiry. 2. Of or relating to a legal proctor (proctor n.1 4). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [adjective] > officer proctorial1850 procuratorial1874 1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xxxiii. 335 Mr. Spenlow's Proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little. 1854 Times 6 Feb. 9/4 That all fees taken for the despatch of testamentary business, whether office fees or proctorial fees, should be reconsidered and settled. 1883 Law Times 13 Oct. 398/2 The two items are inserted in the proctorial charges as ‘Probate under seal and court fee’. 1985 M. A. R. Graves Tudor Parliaments (1986) iii. 51 Proctorial representation..confirmed and kept alive the absentees right to sit in the Lords. Compounds proctorial cycle n. the order in which the colleges of a university have the right to elect or appoint proctors. ΚΠ 1856 Times 26 Nov. 7/6 He considered that the Proctorial Cycle was framed on a wrong principle, and proposed that the statute should be deferred. 1885 C. L. Dodgson (title) The Proctorial Cycle to be Voted on in Congregation on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1885. 1959 M. H. Curtis Oxf. & Cambr. in Transition ii. 43 The privilege of naming proctors rotated among the colleges according to a proctorial cycle incorporated in the statutes. 1994 J. Howarth in B. Harrison Hist. Univ. Oxf. VIII. xiii. 352 It was not until 1977 that women's colleges were incorporated in the proctorial cycle. proctorial veto n. now historical the power of the proctors at Oxford University to exercise a veto on any decree of Convocation. ΚΠ 1891 Times 2 Apr. 4/6 The Proctorial veto had rescued him from the ‘civium ardor prava jubentium’. 1986 L. S. Sutherland & L. G. Mitchell Hist. Univ. Oxf. V. vii. 201 They..proceeded to impose their proctorial veto on both statutes. 2006 Oxf. Dict. National Biogr. (Electronic ed.) at Blakiston, Herbert Edward Douglas He never seriously considered exercising his proctorial veto. proctorial year n. the annual period for which university proctors are elected. ΚΠ 1882 Standard 13 Apr. 3/8 The outgoing Senior Proctor..summarised the events of the past proctorial year. a1884 M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 229 For the proctorial year 1847 I had acted as proproctor to Green. 2003 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 20 Mar. 995/2 The college has elected as Assessor for the Proctorial year 2004-5 D. J. Walker. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1785 |
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