Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Proxies"

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.]


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