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PREPARATOR n.
One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. Agassiz.
PREPARATORY a.
Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
PREPARE v. 5 definitions
To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden.
PREPARED a.
Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.
PREPARER n.
One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.
PRIMIPARA n.
A woman who bears a child for the first time.
PRIMIPAROUS a.
Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.
PROGRESSIVE PARTY n.
The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates were nominated and the platform adopted. Among the chief articles in the platform…
PROPARGYL n.
Same as Propinyl.
PROPAROXYTONE n.
A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.
PUPIPARA n.
oung are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.
PUPIPAROUS a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the Pupipara.
PURPARTY n.
A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. [Written also purpart, and pourparty.] I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.
PURPURIPAROUS a.
Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
QUADRIPARTITE a.
Divided into four parts.
QUADRIPARTITELY adv.
In four parts.
QUADRIPARTITION n.
A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.
QUINQUEPARTITE a. 2 definitions
Consisting of five parts.
RAMIPAROUS a.
Producing branches; ramigerous.
RAMPART n. 3 definitions
A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan.
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