professorship
(prəʊˈfɛsəʃɪp)
[f. professor n. + -ship.]
1. The office or function of a professor.
| 1641 Heylin Hist. Episc. ii. (1657) 385 After his returne, he tooke upon him the Professour-ship in the Schoole afore said. 1678 Walton Sanderson b 5, Dr. Pridiaux succeeded him in the Professorship, in which he continued till the year 1642,..and then our now Proctor Mr. Sanderson succeeded him in the Regius Professorship. 1706 Hearne Collect 23 Apr. (O.H.S.) I. 233 The Regis Professorship of Divinity. 1854 R. Willis in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 167 The private room and laboratory of the Professorship are placed on the ground floor. |
b. with possessive, as a humorous title.
| 1656 Hobbes Six Lessons Wks. 1845 VII. 297 Your professorships could not forbear to take occasion thereby, to commend your zeal against Leviathan to your doctorships of divinity. 1721 Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 5 (1754) 25 ‘Indeed’, quoth his professorship upon this, ‘yes, really, I have heard of strange doings there’. |
2. The position of a professor of religion. rare.
| 1869 W. Arnot Life J. Hamilton iv. (1870) 180 The cozy self-coddling ways of modern professorship. |