proctorage

English

Etymology

From proctor +‎ -age.

Noun

proctorage (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Management by a proctor
2. (obsolete, derogatory) control; superintendence.
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:

     the fogging proctorage of money

References

• “proctorage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.