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A parish priest in the Greek Church. Shipley.

his practice. Sowth. The Targums are also called the Chaldaic or Aramaic Paraphrases. Shipley.

A commendatory prayer. Shipley.

The last day. Shipley.

Formerly, a church estate or endowment. Shipley.

That part of a church to which penitents were admitted. Shipley.

Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.

The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. Shipley. The king . . . annulled the royal placet. J. P. Peters.

lament; to bewail; to complain. [Archaic & Poetic] Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer.

or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless. "Nay," quod this monk, "I have no lust to pleye." Chaucer. Men are apt to play with their healths. Sir W. Temple.

See Pleyt.

ford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.

f bishop. Apostolic prefect (R. C. Ch.), the head of a mission, not of episcopal rank. Shipley.

e acknowledged Christian writers who flourished before the Council of Nice, A. D. 325. Shipley. -- Primitive groove (Anat.), a depression or groove in the epiblast of the primitive streak. It is not connected with the medullary groove, which appears later and in front of it. -- Primitive plane (Spherical Projection),…

rom the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without. Shipley.

A Ramist. Shipley.

Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral. Shipley.

trine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.

iginally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose. Shipley.

A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed. Shipley. I firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful. Creed of Pope Pius IV.