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The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.

A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.

One skilled in affairs. My attorney and solicitor too; a fine pragmatic. B. Jonson.

ctical; material; businesslike in habit or manner. The next day . . . I began to be very pragmatical. Evelyn. We can not always be contemplative, diligent, or pragmatical, abroad; but have need of some delightful intermissions. Milton. Low, pragmatical, earthly views of the gospel. Hare.

In a pragmatical manner.

The quality or state of being pragmatical.

The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method. The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to the pragmatism of the history. A. Murphy.

One who is pragmatic.

To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize. [R.] "A pragmatized metaphor." Tylor.

Pressure.

, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. "The fogging proctorage of money." Milton.

An internal dorsal chitinous process between the first two divisions of the thorax of insects.

Consisting of forty; forty years old.

An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.

The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.

Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.

Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

A quarterly allowance.

To encourage again.

Capable of being refuted; refutable. [R.] -- Ref"ra*ga*ble*ness, n. [R.] -- Ref`*ra*ga*bil"i*ty (-b, n. [R.]