Predestination
the act of ordaining, decreeing, or determining events beforehand. In theology, foreordination. The word "predestination" does not occur in the authorized version of the Bible.
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These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Predestination, Predicate, Prefect.
Predicate
in grammar, the word or words in a proposition which expresses what is affirmed or denied of the subject. In logic, the term in a proposition, expressing that quality which, by the copula, is affirmed or denied of the subject.
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Prefect
a governor, a commander, a chief magistrate; specifically, a title given to several officers, military, naval, and civil, in ancient Rome. Thus, in the times of the kings the officer appointed by the king to act as his deputy when he was compelled to leave the city was called the Præfectus urbi, or prefect of the city. Later, during the earlier ages of the republic, when both consuls were required for military service, a Præfectus urbi was named by the Senate to act during their absence. In times of dearth or famine a commissioner was appointed to procure supplies, his official title being Præfectus annonæ, or prefect of corn. In war the whole body of the cavalry was under the command of an officer, also styled a prefect. The captain of a ship of war was called Præa fleet fectus navis, and the admiral of præfectus elassis. Under Constantine the prefectus became governors of provinces. In France a préfect is the civil governor of a department, having control of the police and extensive powers in regard to municipal administration.
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Pregnancy
the quality or state of being pregnant or with child; the state of a female who has conceived or is with child.
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Prelate
an ecclesiastical dignitary of the highest order, having authority over the lower clergy, as an archbishop, or patriarch; a dignitary of the church.
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Prelude
something introductory or preparatory to that which follows; an introductory or preparatory performance; an introduction. In music, a movement played befor before, or an introduction to a musical work or performance; gov eceding the a short introductory strain preceding the principal movement, performed on the same key as, and intended to prepare the ear for, the piece that is to follow.
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Premonstratensian
in Church order of regular history, Norbertines; an regular canons, founded by St. Norbert, in 1119. The rule was that of St. Austin, and their founder imposed upon his subjects the authority of their ministers, is deperpetual fasting and entire abstinence meat. The order from flourished greatly, and at one time, according to Hélot, there were more than 1,000 abbeys.
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Prendergast
EDMOND FRAN- CIS, archbishop of the Roman Catholic church, diocese of Philadelphia. Born in 1843 in Ireland and died in Philadelphia in 1918. When sixteen years of age he came to the United States and entered St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, being admitted to the priesthood in 1865. After having several important parishes he became vicar-general of the archdiocese in 1895 and auxiliary bishop two years later. He became archbishop in 1911.
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Prenestine Lots, The
or Sortes Prenestina. A method of divination by lots, in vogue in Italy . The letters of the alphabet were placed in an urn which was shaken, and the letters then turned out on the floor; the words thus formed were received as omens. In the East this method of divination is still common. Pretu (a departed ghost): The form which the Hindus believe the soul takes after death. This ghost inhabits a body of the size of a man's thumb, and remains in the keeping of Yumu, the judge of the dead. Punishment is inflicted on the Pretu, whose body is enlarged for this purpose and is strengthened to endure sorrow. At the end of a year the soul is delivered from this state by the performance of the Shraddhu, and is translated to the heaven of the Pitrees, where it is rewarded for its good deeds. Afterwards, in a different body, the soul enters its final abode. The performance of the Shraddhu is aboslutely necessary to escape from the Pretu condition.
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Preposition
a part of speech, so named because originally prefixed to the verb, in order to modify its meaning. Prepositions are either simple or compound. Simple prepositions are at, by, for, from, in, on, out, to, up, with; compound prepositions are across, after (a comparative from of), against, above, about, along, amid, amidst, among, athwart, but, into, over, through, toward, until, unto, within, without. The prepositions concerning, during, except, notwithstanding, outtake, etc., arise out of a participial construction.
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Presbyter
an elder, or a person advanced in years who had authority in the early Christian Church (I Peter v: 1). Also, in the Presbyterian Church, a member of a presbytery; specifically, a minister.
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Presbytery
in the Presbyterian Church, a court of judicature above the session and beneath the synod. The presbytery supervises all the congregations within its bounds, hears appeals from the decisions of sessions, examines procandidates for the ministry, licenses bationers, and ordains ministers by laying on of hands. Appeal lies from it to the synod.
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Prescription
in English law, a claim or title to a thing by virtue of immemorial use, enjoyment, the right or title acquired by such use or by posses- 342 PRESIDENT OF THE U. S. sion had during the time, and in the manner fixed by law, as a right of way, of common, or the like. The term is also used for limitation in the recovery of money due by bond, etc. In medicine, a direction of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a recipe; a written statement of the remedies or medicines to be taken by a patient.
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Preserves
pre-ze rvz', fruit cooked in sugar or sirup. Fruit spoils by reason of a fungus plant mold, or by reason of fermentation caused by another plant called yeast, or by reason of bacteria. Bacteria cannot live in excessive sweetness; molds and yeasts have little vitality in strong sirups. Fruits cooked in sirup are protected against decay just as pickles are protected by brine and laboratory specimens by alcohol. Sugar, salt, alcohol, and vinegar are four great preservatives, but the term is restricted to sweet preserves. Practically nearly all the fruits of the garden are used for making preserves. The process is the same for all. Fruit and sugar are stewed together in about equal parts by weight. Preserving is not only a universal household art among civilized people, but it has acquired large commercial proportions.
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