All 23 Uses of
proctor
in
David Copperfield
- "The amiable old Proctor" — who's he?†
Chpt 19-21 *
- 'Why, yes,' said I. 'She asks me, here, if I think I should like to be a proctor?†
Chpt 22-24
- 'What is a proctor, Steerforth?' said I. 'Why, he is a sort of monkish attorney,' replied Steerforth.†
Chpt 22-24
- 'But advocates and proctors are not one and the same?' said I, a little puzzled.†
Chpt 22-24
- The proctors employ the advocates.†
Chpt 22-24
- I made allowance for Steerforth's light way of treating the subject, and, considering it with reference to the staid air of gravity and antiquity which I associated with that 'lazy old nook near St. Paul's Churchyard', did not feel indisposed towards my aunt's suggestion; which she left to my free decision, making no scruple of telling me that it had occurred to her, on her lately visiting her own proctor in Doctors' Commons for the purpose of settling her will in my favour.†
Chpt 22-24
- We achieved the rest of our journey pleasantly, sometimes recurring to Doctors' Commons, and anticipating the distant days when I should be a proctor there, which Steerforth pictured in a variety of humorous and whimsical lights, that made us both merry.†
Chpt 22-24
- 'Well, Trot,' she began, 'what do you think of the proctor plan?†
Chpt 22-24
- All this looked tolerably expensive, I thought, and gave me an agreeable notion of a proctor's business.†
Chpt 22-24
- However, we got him excommunicated for six weeks, and sentenced in no end of costs; and then the baker's proctor, and the judge, and the advocates on both sides (who were all nearly related), went out of town together, and Mr. Spenlow and I drove away in the phaeton.†
Chpt 25-27
- There was a good deal of competition in the Commons on all points of display, and it turned out some very choice equipages then; though I always have considered, and always shall consider, that in my time the great article of competition there was starch: which I think was worn among the proctors to as great an extent as it is in the nature of man to bear.†
Chpt 25-27
- He said it was impossible to conceal the disagreeable fact, that we were chiefly employed by solicitors; but he gave me to understand that they were an inferior race of men, universally looked down upon by all proctors of any pretensions.†
Chpt 25-27
- We articled clerks, as germs of the patrician order of proctors, were treated with so much consideration, that I was almost my own master at all times.†
Chpt 28-30
- I felt myself quite a proctor when I read this document aloud with all possible ceremony, and set forth its provisions, any number of times, to those whom they concerned.†
Chpt 31-33
- I observed, however, that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the man who was gradually becoming more and more etherealized in my eyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed to me to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like a little lighthouse in a sea of stationery.†
Chpt 31-33
- You are to be a proctor.†
Chpt 34-36
- To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position.†
Chpt 37-39
- There were a number of hangers-on and outsiders about the Commons, who, without being proctors themselves, dabbled in common-form business, and got it done by real proctors, who lent their names in consideration of a share in the spoil; — and there were a good many of these too.†
Chpt 37-39
- There were a number of hangers-on and outsiders about the Commons, who, without being proctors themselves, dabbled in common-form business, and got it done by real proctors, who lent their names in consideration of a share in the spoil; — and there were a good many of these too.†
Chpt 37-39
- Any one of these scouts used to think nothing of politely assisting an old lady in black out of a vehicle, killing any proctor whom she inquired for, representing his employer as the lawful successor and representative of that proctor, and bearing the old lady off (sometimes greatly affected) to his employer's office.†
Chpt 37-39
- Any one of these scouts used to think nothing of politely assisting an old lady in black out of a vehicle, killing any proctor whom she inquired for, representing his employer as the lawful successor and representative of that proctor, and bearing the old lady off (sometimes greatly affected) to his employer's office.†
Chpt 37-39
- The last time I was in the Commons, a civil able-bodied person in a white apron pounced out upon me from a doorway, and whispering the word 'Marriage-licence' in my ear, was with great difficulty prevented from taking me up in his arms and lifting me into a proctor's.†
Chpt 37-39
- Among this correspondence, there dropped in, every now and then, an obliging proposal from one of the numerous outsiders always lurking about the Commons, to practise under cover of my name (if I would take the necessary steps remaining to make a proctor of myself), and pay me a percentage on the profits.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(proctor) watching over students to prevent cheating during a test; or the person doing the watching