prix (pre)

[F.: see price.] A premium; a prize; specifically, the stakes or cup in a French horse-race or other sporting event: used by English writers in such phrases as grand prix and prix de Rome (in French national competitions in the fine arts). prizable (pri'za-bl), a. [ The courage of the tongue Is truly, like the courage of the hand, Discreetly used, a prize able po e ion. IMG:content-0998.png:[blocks in formation] It was not a Jewish ephod, it is not a Romish cowl, that can privilege an evil-doer from punishment. Rev. T. Adams , Works, II. 289. 3. To authorize; license. Wilt thou be gla wherein it shall discern Authority for sin, warrant for blame, To privilege dishonour in thy name? Shak., Lucrece, 1. 621. privy (priv'i), a. and n. [ Sir H. Taylor , St. Clement's Eve, i. 1. See prisage . prizallt, n. See prisal . prizel (priz), n. and a. [Formerly also prise ; prise , prise , a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase (= It. presa ), prise , pris , pp. of prendre , take, capture, prendere , prehen dere , take, seize: see prehend . Cf. prizes , pris . on , etc., apprise , comprise , enterprise , purprise , reprisal, surprise , etc. Prizel and prize2 have been in some senses more or le confused.] I. n. 1. A taking or capture, as of the property of an enemy in war. His leg, through his late luckele e prise , Was crackt in twaine. Spenser, F. Q., VI. viii. 25. 2. In hunting , the note of the horn blown at the ilege debt or defamation. G. Harvey , Four Letters. Privileged altar, communication, debt. See the nouns. Privileged deeds, in Scots law , holograph deeds, which are exempted from the statute that requires other deeds to be signed before witne es. Privileged summonses, in Scots law , a cla of summonses in which, from the nature of the cause of action, the ordinary induciæ are shortened. Privileged villeinage. See villeinage . privily (priv'i-li), adv . [ privily , prevely , prevaly, etc.; privy + -ly2.] In a privy manner; privately; secretly. Sir, a kynge ought not to go so prevely , but to haue his meyne a-boute hym. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 51. There shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies. 2 Pet. ii. 1. IMG:content-0999.png:[blocks in formation] Ther shaltow fynde A thyng that I have hyd in privitee . Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 443. I will to you, in privity , discover the drift of my pur Spenser , State of Ireland. pose. 21. Private life; privacy; seclusion. Then Pirrus with pyne put hym to serche Of Polexena the pert, in priuete holdyn, That was cause of the cumbranse of his kynd fadur. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L. 12078. For all his dayes he drownes in privitie , Yet has full large to live and spend at libertie. Spenser, F. Q., III. ix. 3. privy purse. The other half Comes to the privy coffer of the state. Shak ., M. of V., iv. 1. 354. 2. Secret; not seen openly; not made known in public. A counsail sall I tel to the, The whilk I will you hald priué . Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 92. told me what privy marks Shak ., C. of E., iii. 2. 146. This drudge, or diviner,.. I had about me. The Seas breaking their sandie barres, and breaking vp by secret vnderminings the priuie pores and pa ages in the earth. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 40. Place and occasion are two privy thieves. B. Jonson , Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. 3. Private; appropriated to retirement; sequestered; retired. If your Lordship shall commaund to chastise or to whip any page or seruant, prouide that it be done in a place priuie and secrete. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 161. It is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. Ezek. xxi. 14. 4. Privately knowing; admitted to the participation with another in knowledge of a secret transaction: generally with to . And couth remeve from the seid French kynge the prevy est man of he is Councell yf he wold. Paston Letters , I. 104. His wife also being privy to it. Acts v. 2. Myself am one made privy to the plot. Shak ., T. G. of V., iii. 1. 12. Syr Eglamour hase done to dede A grete herte, and tane the hede; The pry e he blewe fulle schille. MS . Lincoln A. i. 17, f. 140. ( Hall i well .) Aim'd well, the Chieftain's lance has flown; Struggling in blood the savage lies; His roar is sunk in hollow groan- Sound, merry huntsman! sound the pryse ! Scott , Cadyow Castle. 3. That which is taken from an enemy in war; any species of goods or property seized by force as spoil or plunder; that which is taken in combat, particularly a ship with the property taken in it. The law as to prizes is regulated by the general law of nations. Prizes taken in war are condemned (that is, sentence is pa ed that the thing captured is lawful prize) by the proper judicature in the courts of the captors, called prize - courts. And when the saisnes were thus disconfited and fledde, the kynge Vrien and his peple gedered vp that was lefte therof grete riche e, the richest prise that euer was sein. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 240. I have made, mother, A fortunate voyage, and brought home rich prize In a few hours. Fletcher , Spanish Curate. i. 2. The distinction between a prize and booty consists in this, that the former is taken at sea and the latter on land. Bouvier . 4. In early Eng. law, a seizure or the a erted right of seizure of money or chattels by way of exaction or requisition for the use of the crown; more specifically, a toll of that nature exacted on merchandise in a commercial town. 5. That which is obtained or offered as the re The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1001.png:[blocks in formation] ward of exertion or contest: as, a prize for Latin prize-fighter (priz'fi"ter), n . One who fights verses. another with his fists for a wager or reward; a profe ional pugilist or boxer. I'll never wrestle for the prize more. At every shot the prize he got, For he was both sure and dead. Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow (Child's Ballads, V. 386). You love The metaphysics! read and earn our prize , A golden brooch. Shak., As you Like it, i. 1. 168. prize-fighting (priz'fi"ting), n. Fighting, es pecially boxing, in public for a reward or stake. It prevails in Great Britain, the United States, and in the British po e ions; in most of its forms and in most lo- calities it is illegal. Prize-fighting is conducted generally under one of two codes of rules-the London prize-ring Tennyson , Prince , iii. rules and the Marquis of Queens berry rules. The fight- ing is either with bare knuckles or with light gloves. [ prize2 + -le . Cf. pricele .] Inestimable; pricele . Oh, mediocrity, Thou prize le jewel only mean men have, But cannot value. 6. That which is won in a lottery, or in any prizele t (prīz'les), a . similar way. The word lottery... may be applied to any proce of determining prizes by lot. Encyc . Brit ., XV. 11. 7. A po e ion or acquisition which is prized; any gain or advantage; privilege. It is war's prize to take all vantages. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., i. 4. 59. The lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In every place is sought, but sought in vain; With such a prize no mortal must be blest. Pope , R. of the L., v. 111. IMG:content-1002.png:[blocks in formation] prize2 (priz), v. t.; pret. and pp. prized , ppr. prizing . [ prysen , priser , set a price or value on, esteem, value, pris , price, L. pretium , price, value: see price . Cf. praise , appraise , apprize2 .] 1. To set or est i- mate the value of; rate. Having so swift and excellent a wit As she is prized to have. Shak ., Much Ado, iii. 1. 90. 2. To value highly; regard as of great worth; esteem. Whoe'er excels in what we prize Appears a hero in our eyes. Swift , Cadenus and Vane a, 1. 733. Gold is called gold, and dro called dro , i' the Book; Gold you let lie, and dro pick up and prize ! Browning , Ring and Book, II. 254. 3. To favor or ease (an affected limb), as a horse. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] = Syn. 1. To ap- praise. 2. Value , Esteem , etc. See appreciate . prize2+ (priz), n. [ prize2 , v. Cf. price, n.] Estimation; valuation; appraisement. Cæsar's no merchant, to make prize with you Of things that merchants sold. Shak ., A. and C., v. 2. 183. prize3 (priz), n . [Also prise ; prise , a hold, grasp, purchase: see prizel .] 1. The hold of a lever; purchase.-2. Alever. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] prize3 (prīz), v. t.; pret. and pp. prized , ppr. prizing . [Also prise ; prizes , n. Hence, by confusion, pry2 .] To force or pre , especially force open by means of a lever, as a door, etc. Taking a marling-spike hitch over a marling-spike, and with the point prizing it against the rope until the service is taut. Luce , Seamanship, p. 48. When I gently prised up the anther-case at its base or on one side, the pollinium was ejected. Darwin, Fertil. of Orchids by Insects, p. 216. prize able, a . See prizable . prize-bolt (priz'bōlt), n . A projection on a gun carriage for a handspike to hold by in raising the breech. [Eng.] prize-court (priz'kōrt), n. A court whose function it is to adjudicate on captures made at sea. prize-fight (priz'fit), n. A pugilistic encounter or boxing-match for a prize or wager. Fletcher ( and another ), Queen of Corinth, iii. 1. prize-list (prīz'list), n. 1. A detailed list of the winners in any competition for prizes, as a school examination or a flower-show.-2. Naut ., a return of all the persons on board en- titled to receive prize-money at the time a сар- ture is made. prizeman (priz'man), n .; pl. prizemen (-men). [ prize + man .] The winner of a prize. prize-master (prīz'mas"tėr), n . A person put in command of a ship that has been made a prize. prize-money (priz'mun"i), n . Money paid to the captors of a ship or place where booty has been obtained, in certain proportions accord- ing to rank, the money divided being realized from the sale of the prize or booty. prizer (prī'zėr), n. [Formerly also priser ; But value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer . Shak ., T. and C., ii. 2. 56. 2. One who competes for a prize, as a prize- fighter, a wrestler, etc. Why would you be so fond to overcome The bonny priser of the humorous duke? Shak., As you Like it, ii. 3. 8. proarthrous ly much used by pirates in the Eastern Archipelago. Proas are found chiefly within the region of the trade-winds, to which by their construction they are peculiarly adapted; for, being formed with stem and stern equally sharp, they never require to be turned round in order to change their course, but sail equally well in either Proa, with Outrigger. direction. The lee side is flat and in a straight line from stem to stern, and acts as a lee-board or center-board; but the weather side is rounded as in other ve els. This shape, with their small breadth, would render them very to heel over, were it not for outrigger, which is used on either side or on both. The proa is fastened together with coir yarns, is extremely light, and carries an enormous triangular sail. Also called flying proa. They (the Dutch) have Proes of a particular neatne and curiosity. We call them Half-moon Proes , for they turn up so much at each end from the water that they much resemble a Half-moon with the Horns upwards. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 5. I spied, where she pointed, the reedy booms and buoyant out-riggers of freebooting proas lurking in cunning coves. J. W. Palmer , Up and Down the Irrawaddi, p. 29. proacht (prōch), v . i. [Early mod. E. proch ; prochier , come near: see approach .] Το approach. Ffriday, the v Day of ffebruarii, proched nye the Cyte of Corfew. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 61. Appear eth no man yet to answer the prizer ? B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. proal (prō'al), a . [ πρό , before, + -al .] Di- As if a cloud enveloped him while fought Under its shade grim prizers , thought with thought At dead-lock. Browning , Sordello. prize-ring (priz'ring), n. A ring or inclosed place for prize-fighting; also, sometimes, the practice itself. The ring has now become an area eight yards square, inclosed by poles and ropes. It probably de- rived its name from the fact that the combatants originally fought in a ring formed by the onlookers. .. It was lately remarked that we take our point of honour from the prize - ring ; but we do worse-we take our point of honour from beasts. H. Spencer , Study of Sociol., p. 188. p. r. n. An abbreviation of the Latin phrase pro re nat a , as occasion may require. pro (pro). [L. pro , before, in front of, for, etc.: see pro- .] A Latin preposition occurring in sev- eral phrases used in English. -Pro and con., for Latin (New Latin) pro et con ., abbreviation of pro et contra , for and against; hence, as a quasi-noun, in plural pros and cons , the arguments or reasons for and against a propo- sition or opinion; and (rarely) as a verb, to weigh or con- sider impartially. Grand and famous scholars often Have argu'd pro and con , and left it doubtful. Ford , Fancies, iii. 3. A man in soliloquy reasons with himself, and pro's and Congreve, Double Dealer, Ep. Ded. con's, and weighs all his designs. My father's resolution of putting me into breeches had been pro'd and con'd , and judicially talked over betwixt him and my mother, about a month before. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, vi. 16: They do not decide large questions by casting up two columns of pros and cons , and striking a balance. Nat . Rev. = pro-. [1. F. Sp. Pg. It. pro- , pro- ( pro- or pro- ), prefix, prō , adv. and prep., before, in front of, in favor of, for the benefit of, in place of, for, in proportion, in conformity with, etc., Gr. πρό , before, for, etc., προ -prefix, = Skt. pra , before; cf. L. por- , po- , collateral forms; Gr. πρός, before, forth, from, etc. (see pros- ); akin to E. for -1, fore -1, q. v. 2. F., etc., pro- , pro- , pro- : see above.] A prefix of Latin or Greek origin, meaning 'before, "in front,' 'fore,' 'forth,' 'forward.' In some words, as proc on- sul , proprætor, pronoun , etc., it is properly the preposition (L. pro , for, instead of). proa (pro'a), n . [Also prau , prahu , and formerly proe , prow , also praw (as Malay); prāu , a proa (a general term for all ve els between a canoe and a square-rigged ve el).] A kind of Malay ve el remarkable for swiftne , former- rected or moved forward, as the lower jaw in the act of chewing: as, the proal mode of mastication, in which the food is acted on as the lower jaw pushes forward: opposed to palinal . See propalinal . E. D. Cope . pro-amnion (pro-am'ni-on), n. [ πρό , before, + E. amnion .] The primitive amnion of some animals, succeeded by the definitive amnion in a later stage of the embryo. pro-amniotic (pro-am-ni-ot'ik), a . Of or pertaining to the pro-amnion; characterized by or provided with a pro-amnion. Long after the true amnion has been quite completed the head gradually emerges from this pro - amniotic pit. Micros. Sci ., N. S., XXX, iii. 290. pro anaphoral (pro-an-af'ō-ral), a . [ ἀναφορά , anaphora: see anaphora , 3.] Eccles., in liturgics, preceding the anaphora (which see): applied to so much of the eucharistic office as precedes the Sursum Corda. In every Liturgical family there is one Liturgy (or at most two) which supplies the former or pro anaphoral portion to all the others. J. M. Neale , Eastern Church, i. 319. pro and con. See pro. pro angiosperm (pro-an'ji-ō-sperm), n . [ πρό , before, + E. angiosperm .] angiosperm .] An archaic or ancestral angiosperm; the ancestral form or forms from which the modern angiosperms are supposed to have been developed. They may be known only in the fo il state, or may be manifested by rudiments of once functional organs or parts in living angiosperms. The ancestral pro - angiosperms are supposed to have borne leaves such as are found diminished or marked in so many of their existing descendants. Nature , XXXIII. 389. pro an gio spermic (prō-an"ji-ō-spėr'mik), a . [ pro angiosperm + -ic . ] In bot . , pertaining to or resembling a pro angiosperm. Plants in their pro - an gio spermic stage. Nature , XXXIII. 389. Proarthri (prō-är'thri), n . pl. [NL., πρό , before, + ἄρθρον , joint.] One of four suborders of existing Squali , or sharks, represented only by the Hetero don tidæ , having the pal a to quadrate apparatus articulated by an extensive surface with the pre orbital region of the skull: correlated with Opistharthri , Anarthri , and Rhinæ . T. Gill . proarthrous (prō-är'thrus), a . In ichth ., pertaining to the Proarthri , or having their characters. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia pro atlas