proxies

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

“proxies” is listed under Proxy.

Origin: Contr. from procuracy. Cf. Proctor.

1. The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.

I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself.— Edmund Burke

2. The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.

Every peer... may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence.— Blackstone, Sir William

3. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.

4. English law The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. Alexander Mansfield. Burrill

5. Church See Procuration. obsolete

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54