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Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus. "Promethean fire." Shak.

Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus. " Protean transformations." Cudworth.

In a protean manner. Cudworth.

Purveyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small irregular scales; -- said of certain birds.

pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small. " Like that Pygmean race." Milton. Pygmy antelope (Zoöl.), the kleeneboc. -- Pygmy goose (Zoöl.), any species of very small geese of the genus Nettapus, native of Africa, India, and Australia. -- Pygmy owl (Zoöl.), the gnome. Pygmy parrot (Zoöl…

Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain. -- n.

Of or pertaining to pyrrhonism.

philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy. The central thought of the Pythagorean philosophy is the idea of number, the recognition of the numerical and mathematical relations of things. Encyc. Brit. Pythagorean proposition (Geom.), the theorem that the square described upon the hypothenuse of a plane right…

The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans. As a philosophic school Pythagoreanism became extinct in Greece about the middle of the 4th century [B. C.]. Encyc. Brit.

A low woman; a wench; a slut. "The dread of every scolding quean." Gay.

Having five angles; quinquangular.

A Ramist. Shipley.

; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.

The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.

To annex again or anew; to reunite. "To reannex that duchy." Bacon.

Act of reannexing.

To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for. Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under. Shak.

Recreancy.

The quality or state of being recreant.