protectoral

[Eng. protector; -al.] Per taining or relating to a protector; protectorial. "The representative system and the protectoral power." -Godwin: Mandeville, i. 225. pro-těc-tõr-ate, s . [Eng. protector ; -ate ; Fr. protector at ; Sp. protector a do ; Ital. pro tet to rato .] 1. Government by a protector or regent; spec if. applied to that period of English history during which Oliver Cromwell was Protector. "In the days of the Protectorate , he had been a judge." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. 2. A position sometimes a umed by a strong country toward a weak one, in virtue of which the former protects and upholds the interests of the latter, taking in return a greater or le interest in the management of its domestic and foreign af. fairs. prō-těc-tör-I-al, a . [English protector ; -ial .] Pertaining or relating to a protector; protectoral ( Noble : Biog. Hist . Eng ., iii. 70.) †prō-těc-tör-I-an, adj . [Eng. protector; -ian .] Pertaining to the Protector; Cromwellian. "During the tyranny of the Protector i an times." Fuller : Worthies , i. 465. pro-těc-tõr-le , adj. [Eng. protector; -le .] Destitute of a protector; having no protector; unprotected. pro-těc-tõr-ship, *pro-tec-tour-ship, s . [Eng. protector; -ship. The position or office of a protector; a protectorate. pro-těc-trě , *pro-těc'-triçe, s. [Fr. protec trice.] A female who protects. pro-těc-trix, s. [Low Lat.] A protectre . prō-té-gé, prō-té-gée (as pro-tā-zhā), s . [Fr., pa. par. of protéger = to protect (q. v.).] One who is under the protection and care, or who enjoys the kindly consideration, of another. prō-të-l-dae (1), s. pl. [Lat. prote (us); fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ.] Zool .: A family of Ichthyoidea, group Perennibranch i at a. Four feet are present, and persistent external branchise. In some cla ifications Proteus is the sole genus; in others Me no branch us (q. v.) is included.