professoriat
(prɒfɛˈsɔərɪət)
[f. L. professōrius belonging to a public teacher (see professor) + -at.]
a. = professoriate 1. b. = professoriate 2. Also fig.
| 1860 Reade 8th Commandm. 24 So he dismissed himself from the professariat, and became what we call at our Universities ‘a private tutor’. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Dec. 1/2 Privately, they express complete distaste for the program, contempt for the ‘professoriat’. 1978 Encounter Feb. 62/1 In this essay Davie's learning, verbal intelligence, scrupulousness, and his sense of how a poet actually works, combine to do credit to a text and, incidentally, to the Professoriat. |