Regent

rē′jent, adj. invested with interim or vicarious sovereign authority.— n. one invested with interim authority: one who rules for the sovereign: a college profe or, as formerly in Scotland and elsewhere: a master or doctor who takes part in the regular duties of instruction and government in some universities.— ns. Rē′gent-bird , an Australian bird related to the bower-birds; Rē′gente ; Rē′gentship , office of a regent: deputed authority. [Fr.,—L. regens , -ent is , pr.p. of regĕre , to rule.]