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The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623- 1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.

Propriety; correctness. [Obs.] Camden. Literary property. (Law) See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge of the "properties" of a theater.

One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.

To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. Sprat.

Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi. Pythian games (Gr. Antiq.), one of the four great national festivals of ancient Greece, celebrated near Delphi, in honor of Apollo, the conqueror of the dragon Python, at first once in eight years, after…

The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.

One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.

de (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. Erskine. Bouvier.

t which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice. I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme. Spenser. But law in a free nation hath been ever public reason; the enacted reason of a parliament, which he denying to enact, denies to govern us by that wh…

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain. Lev. xxvii. 18. I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison.

The act of granting back to a former proprietor.

ton. Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me. Hog. iv. 6.

To reprieve. [Obs.] Howell.

Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.

The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service.

To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.

A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father. Shak. Save your reverence, Saving your reverence, an apologetical phrase for an unseemly expression made in the presence of a priest or clergyman. -- Sir reverence, a contr…

on of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him. Kent.

To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.