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proctorise

proctorise verb: to summon (a person) before the proctor of a university.

Verb

proctorise (third-person singular simple present proctorises, present participle proctorising, simple past and past participle proctorised)

  1. (UK, archaic, transitive, university slang) To summon (a person) before the proctor of a university.
    • From that moment one of two courses remained open to him,—marriage, the loss of his fellowship, with probably children, and nothing to eat; or patience, the common-room cheer, holy orders, and a living in his turn. He chose the latter, jilted the young girl who had fallen for him, for one of those...1857, Ernest Richard Seymour, The Curate of Holycross, page 4
    • "I was sure to find some of you. Besides, I'll admit one don't like to go in while there's any chance of a real row as you call it, and so gets proctorized in one's old age for one's patriotism."1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1883, pages 129–130

Forms of proctorise

third-person singular presentproctorises
present participleproctorising
past participleproctorised
pastproctorised
alternative formproctorize

Origin of proctorise

From proctor + -ise.

Questions about proctorise

What does proctorise mean?
Proctorise means to summon (a person) before the proctor of a university.
What part of speech is proctorise?
Proctorise is a verb.
What is the past tense of proctorise?
The past tense of proctorise is proctorised.

Words near proctorise in the dictionary

  1. proctored
  2. proctorial
  3. proctorially
  4. proctorical
  5. proctoring
  6. proctorise
  7. proctorised
  8. proctorises
  9. proctorising
  10. proctorize
  11. proctorized

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