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regius professor

regius professor noun: a professor who holds a position created by or filled by a royal patron.

Noun (1)

regius professor (plural regius professors)

  1. A professor who holds a position created by or filled by a royal patron.
    • All doctors, in whatever faculty, were called likewise professores, and possessed and equal capacity to claim and occupy the chair (cathedra) on solemn inceptions and other occasions; this privilege was first restricted, by the Elizabethan statutes, to the three regii professores.1841, George Peacock, Observations on the Statutes of the University of Cambridge, London: John W. Parker. Cambridge: J. and J. J. Deighton, page 34
    • In Oxford there are some forty professors, of whom seven or eight are regius professors appointed by the Crown, and paid by revenues derived from the Crown.1874, Report: Ordered by the House of Assembly to be Printed, page 16

Noun (2) capitalized: Regius Professor

Regius Professor (plural Regius Professors or Regii Professores)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of regius professor.
    • As our wish and our object is not so much to blame as to praise, we regret, that we gave reason (p. 216) to expect any notice of this pamphlet, whose Author, besides railing at the present arrangements of our prelacy, tythes, &c., would, by a fixed perpetual rent-charge, do that for the clergy...1835, a Clergyman, The Textuary and Ritualist; or, Biblical and Liturgical Repertory: Intended as a Help to Students of the Bible, and a Guide to Members of the Church, volume I, London: […] J....
    • “The sum of two hundred and fifty pounds nineteen shillings and tenpence, standing in the names of the Reverend James Ameraux Jeremie, D.D., John Thomas Abdy, Esquire, LL.D., and Henry John Hayles Bond, Esquire, M.D. (three of the Regii Professores in the University of Cambridge), being the produce...1870, Twenty-Second Report from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, with an Appendix. Report, and Part I. of Appendix., London: […] George E[dward] Eyre and William Spottiswoode, […] [f]or...
  2. Part of the title of a regius professor.
    • A VACANCY having occurred in the HEAD MASTERSHIP of this Institution, Candidates for the Office are requested to send in their Names and Testimonials on or before the 1st of July next, to the Rev. the Regii Professores of Divinity, Hebrew, and Greek, in the University of Cambridge, under cover to...1846 June, The Ecclesiastical Gazette; or, Monthly Register of the Affairs of the Church of England, and of Its Religious Societies and Institutions, volume VIII, London: […] Charles Cox, […], page...
    • Acquainted, however, as you would have us believe you are, with the internal economy of the Church, you cannot be ignorant of the fact, that the Bishops have been in the habit of requiring from all candidates for holy orders certificates of having attended the Lectures of the Divinity Regii...1847, W[illiam] B[almbro’] Flower, A Letter to The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, Her Majesty’s First Lord of the Treasury, in Reply to His Lordship’s Answer to the Remonstrant Bishops. With a...

Noun (3) capitalized: Regius professor

Regius professor (plural Regius professors)

  1. (alternative, rare) Alternative form of regius professor.
    • When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our...1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365
    • Prior to the passing of the ordinance of the Scottish University Commissioners, the Regius professors then in office had their share of the graduation fees as well as the parliamentary salary, and the Commissioners reserved to the then holders of those Regius Chairs the privilege of still taking...1874, Reports from Commissioners - Volume 22

Forms of regius professor

pluralregius professors
alternative formRegius Professor
alternative formRegius professor
pluralRegius Professors
pluralRegii Professores
pluralRegius professors

Origin of regius professor

Learned borrowing from Latin rēgius professor.

Questions about regius professor

What does regius professor mean?
Regius professor means a professor who holds a position created by or filled by a royal patron.
What part of speech is regius professor?
Regius professor is a noun.
What is the plural of regius professor?
The plural of regius professor is regius professors.

Words near regius professor in the dictionary

  1. registry
  2. registry office
  3. registry offices
  4. regium donum
  5. regius
  6. regius professor
  7. regius professors
  8. regive
  9. regiven
  10. regives
  11. regiving

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