PRIVATION
PRIVA'TION, noun [Latin privatio, from privo. See Private.]1. The state of being deprived; particularly, deprivation or absence of what is necessary for comfort. He endures his ...
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PRIVATIVE
PRIV'ATIVE, adjective Causing privation.1. Consisting in the absence of something; not positive. privative is in things, what negative is in propositions; as privative blessings...
PRIVATIVELY
PRIV'ATIVELY, adverb By the absence of something.1. Negatively.The duty of the new covenant is set down first privatively [Unusual.]
PRIVATIVENESS
PRIV'ATIVENESS, noun Notation of the absence of something.
PRIVET
PRIV'ET, noun A plant of the genus Ligustrum. The evergreen privet is of the genus Rhamnus. Mock privet is of the genus Phillyrea.
PRIVILEGE
PRIV'ILEGE, noun [Latin privilegium; privus, separate, private, and lex, law; originally a private law, some public act that regarded an individual.]1. A particular and peculiar...
PRIVILEGED
PRIV'ILEGED, participle passive Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right or immunity. The clergy in Great Britain were formerly a privileged body of men. No person i...
PRIVILEGING
PRIV'ILEGING, participle present tense Investing with a peculiar right or immunity.
PRIVILY
PRIV'ILY, adverb [from privy.] Privately; secretly.- False teachers among you, who shall privily bring in damnable heresies. 2 Peter 2:1.
PRIVITY
PRIV'ITY, noun Privacy; secrecy; confidence.I will to you, in privity discover the drift of my purpose. [Little used.]1. Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a pri...
PRIVY
PRIV'Y, adjective [Latin privus. See Private.]1. Private; pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; as the privy purse; the privy confer of a ...
PRIVY-COUNSELOR
PRIVY-COUN'SELOR, noun A member of the privy council.Privy-counselors are made by the king's nomination without patent or grant.
PRIVY-SEAL
PRIV'Y-SEALPRIVY-SIG'NET, noun In England, the seal which the king uses previously in grants, etc. which are to pass the great seal, or which he uses in matters of subordinate c...
PRIZE
PRIZE, noun1. That which is taken from an enemy in war; any species of goods or property seized by force as spoil or plunder; or that which is taken in combat, particularly a sh...
PRIZE-FIGHTER
PRI'ZE-FIGHTER, noun One that fights publicly for a reward.
PRIZED
PRI'ZED, participle passive Rated; valued; esteemed.
PRIZER
PRI'ZER, noun One that estimates or sets the value of a thing.
PRIZING
PRI'ZING, ppr. Rating; valuing; esteeming.
PRO
PRO, a Latin and Greek preposition, signifying for, before, forth, is probably contracted from prod, coinciding with It. proda, a prow, prode, brave; having the primary sense of...
PROA
PRO'A, noun Flying proa a vessel used in the south seas, with the head and stern exactly alike, but with the sides differently formed. That which is intended for the lee side is...
PROBABILITY
PROBABIL'ITY, noun [Latin probabilitas. See Probable.]1. Likelihood; appearance of truth; that state of a case or question of fact which results from superior evidence or prepon...
PROBABLE
PROB'ABLE, adjective [Latin probabilis, from probo, to prove. See Prove.]1. Likely; having more evidence than the contrary, or evidence which inclines the mind to belief, but le...
PROBABLY
PROB'ABLY, adverb Likely; in likelihood; with the appearance of truth or reality; as, the story is probably true; the account is probably correct.Distinguish between what may po...
PROBANG
PRO'BANG, noun [See Probe.] In surgery, an instrument of whalebone and spunge, for removing obstructions in the throat or esophagus.A flexible piece of whalebone, with spunge fi...
PROBATE
PRO'BATE, noun [Latin probatus, probo, to prove.]1. The probate of a will or testament is the proving of its genuineness and validity, or the exhibition of the will to the prope...
PROBATION
PROBA'TION, noun [Latin probatio.] The act of proving; proof.1. Trial; examination; any proceeding designed to ascertain truth; in universities, the examination of a student, as...
PROBATIONAL
PROBA'TIONAL, adjective Serving for trial.