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Prefatory.

Of or pertaining to a prefect.

Presbyterian. "Presbyterial government." Milton.

Pretorian. Burke.

A corruption of pair royal. See under Pair, n.

Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.

Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor. Ayliffe.

Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.

The character, manners, or habits of a professor. [R.]

Of or pertaining to ownership; proprietary; as, proprietorial rights.

Same as Protectoral.

Of or pertaining to the psalterium.

Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.

Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.

Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, patridge, and the like.

ged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; -- opposed to curviserial.

Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral. Shipley.

Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper.

Responsory; antiphonal. J. H. Newman.

A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.