English Dictionary: proxies | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Proxy \Prox"y\, n.; pl. {Proxies}. [Contr. from procuracy. Cf. {Proctor}.] 1. The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity. I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself. --Burke. 2. The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another. Every peer . . . may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence. --Blackstone. 3. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting. 4. (Eng. Law) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. --Burrill. 5. (Eccl.) See {Procuration}. [Obs.] |