proctor

A supervisor especially of an examination or dormitory in a school.

To supervise (an examination).

One who is employed to manage the affairs of another; a procurator.

Specifically, a person employed to manage another’s cause in a court of civil or ecclesiastical law, as in the court of admiralty or a spiritual court.

One of the representatives of the clergy in the Convocations of the two provinces of Canterbury and York in the Church of England. They are elected by the cathedral chapters and the clergy of a diocese or an archdeaconry.

An official in a university or college whose function it is to see that good order is kept. In the universities of Oxford and Cambridge the proctors are two officers chosen from among the masters of arts.

A keeper of a spital-house; a liar.

One who collected alms for lepers or others unable to beg in person.

To manage as an attorney or pleader.

To hector; swagger; bully. Forby, quoted in Halliwell.