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advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.

More than human.

e print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow. Where print of human feet was never seen. Dryden.

rtunity 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.

A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.

Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow. What humble gestures! What profound reverence! Dupp

Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage. " Issued from the progeny of kings." Shak.

; a plan. Vented much policy, and projects deep. Milton. Projects of happiness devised by human reason. Rogers. He entered into the project with his customary ardor. Prescott.

, any moth of the family Notodontidæ; a notodontian; -- so called because the larva has a hump or prominence on its back. Several of the species are injurious to fruit trees.

Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.

incts and appetites. Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which constitute our proper humanity. Coleridge.

The bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the propodialia being the humerus and femur.

The addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also prothesis.

Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults. Milton.

The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship. A greater prostration of reason than of body. Shak.

y of the weather; to provide for the education of a child. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.

To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt. Dryden.

A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God. Humus devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly. Milton.

The doctrine of the merely human existence of Christ.

Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.