Definition of "professorial"

professorial

adjective
comparative more professorial, superlative most professorial
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
  Quotations
  Adamant that women could not enter the professorial fraternity, 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).
  1997, Pamela M. Henson, “‘Through Books to Nature’: Anna Botsford Comstock and the Nature Study Movement”, in Barbara T. Gates, Ann B. Shteir, editors, Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, University of Wisconsin Press, page 121
  Professorial, downright dorktastic African-American NBA [National Basketball Association] stars are defying the expectation that they wear an intimidating hood facade, which is changing how we view black athletes—and how they view themselves.
  2012 May 14, Sean Gregory, “NBA Nerd Alert. A studious look is redefining pro style”, in Time, volume 179, number 19, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., page 60