proctorise

English

Alternative forms

• proctorize

Etymology

proctor +‎ -ise

Verb

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

1. (transitive, UK, university slang, archaic) To summon (a person) before the proctor of a university.
   • 1857, Ernest Richard Seymour, The Curate of Holycross, page 4:

     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 thousand reasons, which induce girls to throw themselves away on men who possess everything in them that is least likely to attract them in particular, and applied himself to good eating, fiery port wine, proctorising young gentlemen, and other intellectual accomplishments, which are supposed by some to perfect the university fellow for the duties of a parish priest.

   • 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1883, pages 129–130:

     "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."

   • 1866 May 5, “The Dream of the Junior Proctor”, in The Harlequin, number 3, verse 12, page 4:

     A man who never acted wrong— / No mischief ever did; / I met him walking by himself— / In vain his pipe he hid: / Said I, I'll proctorise this man, / And fine him half-a-quid.