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e bodies; as, a parliamentary motion. Parliamentary agent, a person, usually a solicitor, professionally employed by private parties to explain and recommend claims, bills, etc., under consideration of Parliament. [Eng.] -- Parliamentary train, one of the trains which, by act of Parliament, railway companies are requir…

(R. C. Ch.), a saint regarded as the peculiar protector of a country, community, church, profession, etc., or of an individual.

A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.

Drudging; servile. [Colloq.] Bred to some poking profession. Gray.

multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession. Pope. To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson.

Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice. Practice is exercise of an art, or the application of a science in life, which application is itself an art. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who exercises a profession; a practitioner.

One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. Crabbe.

The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is preëminent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. "The prince of learning." Peacham. Prince-Albert coat, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. -- Prince of the blood, Prince consort, Prince of darkness. See under Blood, Conso…

hysicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.

e or wager. -- Prize fighter, one who fights publicly for a reward; -- applied esp. to a professional boxer or pugilist. Pope. -- Prize fighting, fighting, especially boxing, in public for a reward or wager. -- Prize master, an officer put in charge or command of a captured vessel. -- Prize medal, a medal given as…

, as from an ancestor. [R.] The threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional was ascertained. Gibbon.

To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess. Drayton.

By profession.

Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.

antageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. Arbuthnot. -- Prof"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Prof"it*a*bly, adv.

rved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.

One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position. I made that inquiry in quality of an antiquary. Gray.