Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            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. --Burrill.

   5. (Eccl.) See {Procuration}. [Obs.]