Regius professor

See also: regius professor and Regius Professor

English

Noun

Regius professor (plural Regius professors)

1. (rare) Alternative form of regius professor
   • 1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365:

     When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?

   • 1874, Reports from Commissioners - Volume 22:

     Prior to the passing of the ordinance of the Scottish University Commissioners, the Regius professors then in office had their share of the graduation fees as well as the parliamentary salary, and the Commissioners reserved to the then holders of those Regius Chairs the privilege of still taking their share of the graduation fees so long as they lived;

   • 1898, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, →ISBN:

     The agitation thus begun by Hooper, which received in1551 the 'support of Peter Martyr and Martin Bucer, foreign divines who had become Regius professors of divinity at Oxford and Cambridge, finally enlisted the sympathy of the young king, who probably gave the weight of his personal authority to a revision the history of whose making is not recorded.

   • 2003, Barton Childs, Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease, →ISBN, page 17:

     The previous chapter outlined some of the contrasts in the thinking of Garrod and Osler, the two Regius professors.