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. 1590 Swinburne Testaments 246 If the names be artificiall, not naturall, as to vse proctorship, for curatorship. a 1656 Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 620 He..was forced..to undertake there the Proctorship and Stewardship for the King. 1706 Hearne Collect. 21 Apr. (O.H.S.) I. 230 [He] was a little after his Proctership preferr'd. 1762 [see procuracy 1]. 1886 Pop. 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. |