Proxies

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Proxy \Prox"y\, n.; pl. {Proxies}. [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.
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              I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself.
                                                    --Burke.
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     2. The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote
        for another.
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              Every peer . . . may make another lord of parliament
              his proxy, to vote for him in his absence.
                                                    --Blackstone.
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     3. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote
        in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
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     4. (Eng. Law) The written appointment of a proctor in suits
        in the ecclesiastical courts. --Burrill.
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     5. (Eccl.) See {Procuration}. [Obs.]
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