Definition of Professorial

1. Adjective. Relating to or characteristic of professors. "Professorial demeanor"

Partainyms: Professor
Derivative terms: Professor

Definition of Professorial

1. a. Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.

Definition of Professorial

1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or a professorship or professorships. ¹

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Definition of Professorial

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Professorial

professionalism
professionalisms
professionalist
professionalists
professionalization
professionalize
professionalized
professionalizes
professionalizing
professionally
professionals
professions
professor
professorate
professorates
professorial (current term)
professorialism
professorially
professoriat
professoriate
professoriates
professoriats
professors
professorship
professorships
professory
professour
professours
proffer
proffered

Literary usage of Professorial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life and Letters of Joseph Story by William Wetmore Story (1851)
"68 CHAPTER IIL professorial AND JUDICIAL LIFE. 1833-34. JET. 54-55. Letters from Washington — Miss ... professorial AND JUDICIAL LIFE. 1834-35. JE.T. 55-56. ..."

2. The Recommendations of the Oxford University Commissioners, with Selections by James Heywood (1853)
"Our conclusion therefore is, that for any healthy and complete scheme of University Reform, it will be necessary to reconstruct the professorial system, ..."

3. American Journal of Education (1862)
"... where, though nominally professorial, so little is left to the student's own voluntary action, where the ordinary study and reading, as it is called in ..."

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