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

The state of being proprietor; ownership.

A female proprietor.

ual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property. [Obs.] "Onles this propriety be exiled." Robynson (More's Utopia). So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord, and yet all are for her provisions, it being a part of his need to refresh and supply hers. Jer. Taylor.…

The quality or state of being prurient. The pruriency of curious ears. Burke. There is a prurience in the speech of some. Cowper.

ious curiosity or propensity; lustful. -- Pru"ri*ent*ly, adv. The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object to object of illicit attraction. I. Taylor.

Same as Quadrennial.

Provided with prey. Now I am bravely quarried. Beau. & Fl.

A worker in a stone quarry.

A renewed or repeated experience.

Rising again. [R.] The life reorient out of dust. Tennyson.

Repreve. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reprieve. Overbury.

of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days. He reprieves the sinnner from time to time. Rogers.

That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval. -- Re*triev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*triev"a*bly, adv.

The act retrieving.

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence. With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live. Dryden

Retrieval.

One who retrieves.

of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless reveries." Tennyson. When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. Locke.