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