单词 | professorial |
释义 | professorialadj. Of or relating to a professor, or the position or office of professor; characteristic of a professor or body of professors; (formerly esp.) pedagogic, dogmatic. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [adjective] > professor cathedral1603 professory1605 cathedrated1627 professorial1713 professional1780 1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking II. xliii. 24 Those persons, for their Professorial interest, and to keep the Pagan System in some countenance against the objections of Christians, had quite alter'd the old Schemes of Philosophy. 1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 384 Too much of the Professorial or Sophistical Spirit. 1798 A. Holmes Life Ezra Stiles 341 Josiah Meigs..who had given ample proof of his talents in this department of science..was elected to the Professorial chair. 1818 J. Hobhouse in Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV Notes 158 They endowed a professorial chair for the expounding of his verses. 1886 F. Pollard in Antiquary Feb. 53/2 Causing..professorial and tutorial duties to be entirely suspended. 1909 W. James Pluralistic Universe viii. 311 Remote professorial minds operating in distans upon conceptual substitutes for him [sc. God] alone. 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 633/2 Nobody had much hope of obtaining an important professorial teaching appointment north of the Mason–Dixon Line unless he had finished a personal psychoanalysis. 1991 N.Y. Times 8 Oct. c13/1 At the age of 63, he is mild mannered, deliberate of speech, almost touchingly professorial. Derivatives profeˈssorially adv. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [adverb] > professor professorially1873 1865 Littell's Living Age 21 Jan. 108/2 There was gathered round him..the accumulated interest of all that he had been and done non-professorially.] 1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 25 Jan. 137/3 ‘Well then,’ I resume professorially, ‘we will begin at the beginning.’ 1979 Maclean's 22 Oct. 22/3 Trudeau professorially chided the new government for its decentralist approach to federal government. 1995 Oxf. Mag. No. 113. 2/1 A professorially research-directed university. 2002 Daily Tel. 15 May 22/1 Looking professorially over the top of his spectacles with eyes sparkling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1713 |
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