Meanings
plural proproctors
- UKAn assistant proctor in a university.
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
1962, John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, Oxford Life
Origin
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