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proctorship|ˈprɒktəʃɪp| [f. proctor n.1 + -ship.] The office, position, or function of a proctor, in various senses of the word.
1535(13 Oct.) in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 178 To Thos [my son] I leve my parte in the bargyn for the proctor⁓sheype of the Auterlaege [i.e. altarage] of Upton. 1590Swinburne Testaments 246 If the names be artificiall, not naturall, as to vse proctorship, for curatorship. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 620 He..was forced..to undertake there the Proctorship and Stewardship for the King. 1706Hearne Collect. 21 Apr. (O.H.S.) I. 230 [He] was a little after his Proctership preferr'd. 1762[see procuracy 1]. 1886Pop. Sci. Monthly XXVIII. 615 The proctorship for science, justly assumed for matters within his province as a student, is rather hastily extended to matters which he himself declares to be beyond it. |