professorial

adj

Etymology: From Latin professōrius (“professiorial; authoritative”) + -al. By surface analysis, professor + -ial.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.

   “David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself.”

   “Adamant that women could not enter the professorial fraternity, [[w:Cornell University|Cornell [University]]] did not appoint any women professors until 1911 and then only in home economics. Comstock regained her professorial title only in 1913, after working for many years as a lecturer (Conable 127, 130).”