Professorial

Origin

From Latin professōrius ("authoritative") + -al

Full definition of professorial

Adjective

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
• 1997, Pamela M. Henson, “‘Through Books to Nature’: Anna Botsford Comstock and the Nature Study Movement”, in Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir (editors), Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-15484-4, page 121:Adamant that women could not enter the professorial fraternity, Cornell University did not appoint any women professors until 1911 and then only in home economics. Comstock regained her professorial title only in 1913, after working for many years as a lecturer (Conable 127, 130).

Derived terms

• professorially