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POSTURER n.
One who postures.
POURPRESTURE n.
See Purpresture.
PREFECTURE n.
The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.
PRELATURE; PRELATURESHIP n.
The state or dignity of a prelate; prelacy. Milman.
PREMATURE a. 3 definitions
Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.
PREMATURITY n.
The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius.
PREPOSITURE n.
The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship. Lowth.
PRETERNATURAL a.
Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor. This…
PRETERNATURALISM n.
The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition.
PRETERNATURALITY n.
Preternaturalness. [R.] Dr. John Smith.
PRETERNATURALLY adv.
In a preternatural manner or degree. Bacon.
PRETERNATURALNESS n.
The quality or state of being preternatural.
PRETEXTURE n.
A pretext. [Obs.]
PRETORTURE v.
To torture beforehand. Fuller.
PRIMOGENITURE n. 2 definitions
in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue. Blackstone.
PRIMOGENITURESHIP n.
The state or privileges of the firstborn. Burke.
PROGENITURE n.
A begetting, or birth. [R.]
PROJECTURE n.
A jutting out beyond a surface.
PROMPTURE n.
Suggestion; incitement; prompting. [R.] Shak. Coleridge.
PROTURETER n.
The duct of a pronephros. Haeckel.
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