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To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent. Bp. Warburton.

Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. "The fogging proctorage of money." Milton.

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

Proctorial. [R.]

The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. Clarendon.

A assistant proctor. Hook.

An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs.

l or figurative. The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. Proctor. The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes.

To salute by removing the cap. [Slang. Eng.] Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows. Thackeray.

earing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank. With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans. Tennyson. Queen dowager, the widow of a king.

p. Stillingfleet. Eldest hand (Card Playing), the player on the dealer's left hand. R. A. Proctor.

Eruptive. [R.] R. A. Proctor.

Of or pertaining to the faculæ. R. A. Proctor.

ing, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors. R. A. Proctor. Affair of honor, a dispute to be decided by a duel, or the duel itself. -- Court of honor, a court or tribunal to investigate and decide questions relating to points of honor; as a court of chivalry, or a military court…

In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.

put in order; to form; to prepare. [Obs.] They speak to the merits of a cause, after the proctor has prepared and instructed the same for a hearing. Ayliffe.

arm raised above the shoulder. See Overhard. "An over-arm with a round-arm bowler." R. A. Proctor.

Among or around the stars. "Comets in periastral passage." R. A. Proctor.

The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another.

One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. Chaucer. Shak.