Proctor

·noun A representative of the clergy in convocation.

II. Proctor ·noun One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.

III. Proctor ·vt To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.

IV. Proctor ·noun An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.

V. Proctor ·noun An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.

VI. Proctor ·noun A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, ·etc.; hence a beggar.