单词 | professoriate |
释义 | professoriaten. 1. A body of professors; the professorial staff of a university; professors collectively. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [noun] > professor > body of professoriate1852 professordom1870 professorate1872 professoriat1933 1852 Times 28 Aug. 8/1 We cordially sympathize..with the extension of the professoriate, and its endowment. 1865 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (new ed.) VIII. lxiv. 281 Even the extensive professoriate of the Flavian and later emperors comprised no chairs for the teaching of mathematics. 1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages II. 276 The Universities [in Germany] were thus provided with a permanent Professoriate, and this Professoriate succeeded in time in ousting the unendowed Regent Masters from all real academic power. 1955 A. L. Rowse Diary 8 Sept. (2003) 186 My colleagues, the professors, ask me out to dinner. First the Dietzes, who have one of those tasteful houses of the best American professoriate. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Apr. 396/3 From the ranks of the Oxford and Cambridge professoriate alone. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Dec. 89/1 It is almost inconceivable that the professoriate can devote mental energies to scientific problems without some fraction of that energy being directed by commercial rewards. 2. The office of professor; a professorship. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [noun] > professor > position of profession1579 professorship1631 university chair1711 chair1816 professorate1831 professoriat1856 professoriate1862 1862 Times 14 Dec. 10/3 In 1854 he published the first fruits of his Professoriate. 1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 348 On the fortieth anniversary of Schwann's professoriate, deputations from all the important universities in the world went to Liége and presented addresses. 1885 Times 3 Feb. 9/3 Young men who were studying for the priesthood or for the professoriate. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 850/2 A proposal to make him principal of a theological college at Leiden was frustrated by Archbishop Abbot; and when [he was] later invited..to a professoriate at Franeker, the opposition was renewed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1852 |
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