Definition of professorial
: of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling a professor
professorial duties professorial authority a calm, professorial manner Johnson was professorial in his approach to the game. He could talk for hours on the nuances of the Czechoslovak national team's power play.— E. M. Swift
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The first known use of professorial was in 1713
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