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one ecclesiastical benefice. [Eng.] Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. Macaulay.

A member of the People's party. -- Pop`u*lis"tic (#), a.

One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.

One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.

One who goes or marches in a procession. [R.]

professional person. [R.]

One who takes profiles.

One who draughts protocols.

One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.

One who lives in a province; a provincial.

One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives. [R.] Coleridge.

One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

Of or pertaining to pugillism.

One who is very exact in observing forms and ceremonies. Milton.

One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.

Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv.

of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.

Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

In the realistic manner.

To enlist again.