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A chief priest; esp., the head of the Jewish priesthood.

The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.

High-priesthood.

improper act, or an inaccurate use of language. But every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities. Johnson. Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded. Swift.

A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right. Fuller.

right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.

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

The state of being proprietor; ownership.

A female proprietor.

dual 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.…

Repreve. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reprieve. Overbury.

t 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.

To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock. [R.] Milton.

Not capable of being reprieved. Shak.

Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews.

A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.

Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a vi…