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A petty prince; a princeling. The princekins of private life. Thackeray.

verning law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle. All kinds of dishonesty destroy our pretenses to an honest principle of mind. Law.…

invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life. Shak. A private person may arrest a felon. Blackstone.

praise; to price; to rate. A goodly price that I was prized at. Zech. xi. 13. I prize it [life] not a straw, but for mine honor. Shak.

h is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth. The whole life of man is a perpetual comparison of evidence and balancing of probabilities. Buckminster. We do not call for evidence till antecedent probabilities fail. J. H. Newman.

ation, or to his settlement as a pastor. (c) Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier state. No [view of human life] seems so reasonable as that which regards it as a state of probation. Paley.

Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial. To consider this life . . . as a probationary state. Paley.

ly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course. Bp. Pearson. That the procession of their life might be More equable, majestic, pure, and free. Trench.

inate repentance. Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak.

hat is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift. "Noble prodigals of life." Trench.

To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.

The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

ion of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days. Prolong awhile the traitor's life. Shak. The unhappy queen with talk prolonged the night. Dryden.

Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.

Having a life-giving quality; inspiring.

o have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.

To generate; to produce. Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life. De Quincey.

g or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.

designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life Tillotson.