Word Meanings - PROPRETOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.

Related words: (words related to PROPRETOR)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• PRETORIAL
  Pretorian. Burke.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• PRETORIUM
  1. The general's tent in a Roman camp; hence, a council of war, because held in the general's tent. 2. The official residence of a governor of a province; hence, a place; a splendid country seat.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• APPOINTOR
  The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
• APPOINTIVE
  Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• APPOINT
  To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. Crowley. (more info) prepare,
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• PRETORSHIP
  The office or dignity of a pretor. J. Warton
• PRETORTURE
  To torture beforehand. Fuller.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.