Noah Webster
Proctor
PROC'TOR, noun [contracted from Latin procurator, from procuro; pro and curo.]
1. In a general sense, one who is employed to manage the affairs of another.
2. Appropriately, a person employed to manage another's cause in a court of civil or ecclesiastical law, as in the court of admiralty, or in a spiritual court.
3. The magistrate of a university.
PROC'TOR, verb intransitive To manage; a cant word.