pro-proctor
(ˌprəʊˈprɒktə(r))
[f. pro-1 4 + proctor1.]
orig. One who acted for the proctor of a university (see proctor1 3); an officer under the control of the proctors, who assisted them in executing their duties of keeping order, etc. (sometimes specially appointed for the occasion); now, an assistant or deputy proctor in the universities.
| 1650 in Wood Life & Times (O.H.S.) I. 163 At a meeting of the Delegates..Mr. Hancock proproctor the last yeare did certifie the Delegates that one Keblewhite a citizen had served him with a writ out of the Common Pleas for false imprisonment. 1663 Ibid. 22 Sept. 492 The 24 masters of Art,..that were to be as pro-proctors and exercise procuratorial power over schollers. Ibid. 23 Sept., The 24 pro-proctors placed..the Doctors and Bachelors of Divinity next to Xt. Ch. gate, and the Masters on both sides almost up to the Bull Inne. 1721 Amherst Terræ Fil. Pref. 20 One of the pro-proctors for the last and the present year. a 1884 M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 229 For the proctorial year 1847 I had acted as proproctor to Green. |