propretor, proprætor (propretor)

[L. proprætor, pro pretorial, proprætorial (prō-prē-tō'ri-al), a. [ IMG:content-1117.png:[blocks in formation] Peasant proprietor. See peasant . proprietorial (pro-pri-e-to'ri-al), a . [ proprie tor +-i- al .] Proprietary. Proprietorial rights. Thus the distinction between consular (or proconsular) and prætorial (or proprætorial ) provinces varied from year to year with the military exigencies of different parts of the empire. Encyc . Brit ., XIX. 885. tus, pp. of propriare, appropriate: see proper, v.] Peculiar; specific. [Rare.] But any simple Tom will tell ye, The source of life is in the belly, From whence are sent out those supplies Without whose propriate sympathies We should be neither strong nor wise. W. Combe , Dr. Syntax, ii. 7. ( Davies .) pro priest, n. [L. propria , neut. pl. of propri us , proper, own: see proper .] Po e ions; property. Hall i well .