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Glossary of Latin Words.
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  • presbyteratus:—priesthood.
  • presbyterium:—priesthood; a presbytery; the choir of a church.
  • presentum:—a present, a gift.
  • primitiare:—to begin.
  • princeps:—a prince.
  • principalium:—an heirloom; a mortuary.
  • principatus:—principality.
  • principissa:—a princess.
  • principium burgi:— a town hall.
  • prior:—a monastic officer, next to the abbot in an abbey, head of a priory.
  • prioratus:—a priory.
  • priorissa:—a prioress.
  • prisa:—a prize; booty; a fine; prisage.
  • prisagium:—prisage, a share of prizes; a right of taking prizes; a duty on wine and provisions.
  • prisalia:—reprisals.
  • prisia:—prisage.
  • priso:—a prisoner of war; a prison; imprisonment.
  • prisona:—a prison.
  • prisonare:—to keep in prison.
  • prisonarius:—a prisoner.
  • privatus:—privy.
  • privicarnium:—fasting; Lent.
  • privilegiare:—to grant a privilege to.
  • proaula:—a porch.
  • probare:—used for propriare.
  • probaticus:—connected with sheep.
  • probator:—an accuser; an approver.
  • probatum:—a sheep.
  • probi homines:—good men, an elected body of citizens forming a common council.
  • proceres:—ornamental heads of beams on house fronts.
  • Processio:—Rogation week.
  • processionale:—a book containing directions for and music to be used in processions, the service for gangdays, litanies, or intercessions.
  • proclamator: —a crier; in the Court of Common Pleas, proclamator.
  • proconsul:—a justice in eyre.
  • procuratio:—procuration, a payment, originally in victuals, by the inferior clergy to bishop or archdeacon at visitations; a proxy; necessaries, as food and clothing; a meal.
  • procurator:—a proctor.
  • procuratorium:—procurator; a proxy.
  • proditio:—treason.
  • proditionaliter:—treasonably.
  • profectus:—profit.
  • profestum:—the eve of a feast.
  • proficum:—profit.
  • profrum:—profer, time appointed tor officers to make their accounts.
  • promarius:—a waiter.
  • promtorium, promptuarium:—a buttery; a storehouse.
  • propalare:—to publish.