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 Prox·y n.; pl. Proxies
 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.   --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.
 3. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
 4. Eng. Law The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
 5. Eccl. See Procuration. [Obs.]