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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. One who is employed to manage to affairs of another. Specifically:

2. A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar. [Obs.] Nares.

3. An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent. Bp. Warburton.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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