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ountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise. The two faculties that are the prerogative of man -- the powers of abstraction and imagination. I. Taylor. An unconstitutional exercise of his prerogative. Macaulay.

Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege. [R.] Shak.

By prerogative.

Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. [Archaic] "The abusive prerogatives of his see." Hallam.

To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power. Stubbs.

moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government. Clarendon.

Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.

d in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house. Burrill. Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a porti…

The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court. [Obs.] Bacon.

A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divide. Mozley & W.

Power; prerogative or attribute of office. [R.] This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek. Shak.

The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.

s; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money. Insisting on the old prerogative. Shak. Without further insisting on the different tempers of Juvenal and Horace. Dryden.

ntrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown. We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children. Locke.

concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative. Milton.

a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice. Ayliffe.

ome business of manufacture, or of the sale of certain articles, or of certain offices or prerogatives. -- Patent rolls, the registers, or records, of patents.

That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic. Revenge is . . . the peculiar of Heaven. South.

The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others. [Eng.]