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Strongly affected. [Obs.] The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.

g, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise. "I to thee engaged a prince's word." Shak.

Mutual dealings; intercourse. [Obs.] The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.

properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn. A prince [Henry III.] to whom the epithet "worthless" seems best applicable. Hallam.

An officer of princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses.

haracterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned. "A most erudite prince." Sir T. More. "Erudite . . . theology." I. Taylor. -- Er"u*dite`ly, adv. -- Er"u*dite`ness, n.

k, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency. Righteousness exalteth a nation. Prov. xiv. 34. He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke xiv. 11.

ssadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.

an object of expectation; contingent. Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.

Experienced. [Obs.] The prince now ripe and full experient. Beau & Fl.

Well-disposed. "A fair-natured prince." Ford.

n to whom one is bound by a vow, be ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant. So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he. Milton.

nting horns during the chase. The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes. Sir W. Scott.

ntee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.

The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer. [Obs.] Bacon.

used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence.

y by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.

To proceed; to go. [Obs.] The bauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame. Shak.

led with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. Bp. Burnet.

The title of the ruling Prince of Baroda, in Gujarat, in Bombay, India.