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A member of the faculty at an institution of higher learning who has attained its highest possible academic rank and possesses special knowledge in an occupation requiring special skillsSegen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
professor
Academia A member of the faculty at an institution of higher learning who has attained its highest possible academic rank, who possesses special knowledge in an occupation requiring special skills. See 'Chair. '. Cf, Lecturer.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Gailey, the editorial page editor, was lured from the New York Times Washington bureau and presides
professorially over more than a dozen editorial writers and columnists.
But there is still a level of symbolic significance even in an approach to biography as
professorially referential and determinedly free of analysis as Baker's.
In one such passage, Stone shows two perpetually drunk and stoned gunrunners bickering
professorially over and mistakenly conflating two "great lines," one from Hamlet and the other from Lear.
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