English

Adjective

professorial ‎(comparative more professorial, superlative most professorial)

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).

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:professorial.

Derived terms

• professorially

Translations

See also

• professorly