Talk:professorial

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professorial

Rfv-sense: "In the capacity of a professor".

I thought just the other sense of "characteristic of or relating to a professor". DCDuring TALK 22:21, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

You're the one that added that meaning, according to the page history. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:44, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I split the recently added wording, with which I am not familiar, into a separate sense and also amended the base sense. If often do that kind of thing when only part of a definition seems wrong to me (and also not supported in other dictionaries) and where the words in the sense do not really amount to the same meaning or different shades thereof. In any event, it is the song, not the singer, that is at issue. DCDuring TALK 23:07, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Would you count things like google books:"his professorial duties"? That use could perhaps be defined as "relating to a professorship", but not IMHO as "relating to a professor". —Ruakh_TALK 16:00, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, yes, I would. That just didn't strike me at the time, having just been working on (deprecated template usage) professorially, which would not usually relate to the position. My mind just isn't as flexible as it ought to be. DCDuring TALK 16:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Cited IMHO. Sorry for the delay. It may make sense to re-merge the two senses. —Ruakh_TALK 13:29, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

RFV passed. I've also merged the senses; but because I didn't want a catch-all sense to have several cites in one submeaning and no cites in any other, I've copied all the cites to the citations page and removed all but one from the entry. (Usually I prefer for citations to be in the entry, but in this case it just seemed too unbalanced.) —Ruakh_TALK 01:35, 31 October 2010 (UTC)