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ds from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron. For the world's protector shall be known. Waller.

Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.

Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.

Same as Protectoral.

Having no protector; unprotected.

, The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.

nt benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. A sorry breakfast for my lord protector. Shak.

fight; to struggle; to contend. The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him. Latimer. In single combat thou shalt buckle with me. Shak. To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. Barrow. Before buckling to my winter's work. J. D. Fo…

A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.

great or high, Can be concluded blest before he die. Addison. Is it concluded he shall be protector Shak.

One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver. The great Creator and Conservator of the world. Derham.

ally, a lady. Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. Shak.

A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.

emove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.

A follower of Eusebius, bishop of Cæsarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius.

Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care. Feast of Guardian Angels (R. C. Ch.) a church festival instituted by Pope Paul V., and celebrated on October 2d. -- Guardian angel. (a) The particular spiritual being believed in some branches of the Christian church to have guardianship an…

an injudicious adviser. An injudicious biographer who undertook to be his editor and the protector of his memory. A. Murphy.

e of sport; a trick; a prank. [Obs.] Is't not a fine jig, A precious cunning, in the late Protector Beau & Fl.

A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house. Nor will she her dear Lar forget, Victorious by his benefit. Lovelace. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. Milton. Looki…