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but now rarely applied to a female. Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. Camden.

The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince. Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce. Milton.

Princeliness. [Obs.] E. Hall.

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

Without a prince. Fuller.

A petty prince. [R.]

Princely. Shak.

The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.

A petty prince; a young prince.

Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc.

A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. Swift.

A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.

Like a princess.

The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.

To make unlike a prince. [R.] For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson.

To deprive of the character or authority of a prince; to divest of principality of sovereignty. [R.] Swift.

To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.

oming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. Shak.

o a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes. Esther iii. 1.