proproctor

English

Etymology

pro- +‎ proctor

Noun

proproctor (plural proproctors)

  1. (UK) An assistant proctor in a university.
    • 1962, John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, Oxford Life:
      So it is the University that must go into action in defence of peace: and the University, its full strength mustered, consists of two Proctors, four Proproctors and eight or ten University police

References

“proproctor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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