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 Privemént: m. A depriuing, or bereauing.

Privément. Priuily, closely, secretly; priuately, inwardly, familiarly; after an ordinarie fashion.

Priver. To depriue, reaue, or bereaue, despoyle of, take from.

Privilege: m. A Priuiledge, Libertie, Fraunchise, Licence, Immunitie, Prerogatiue aboue others: A French Lawyer defines it to be, Vne concession singuliere que le Roy octroye à tousiours par lettres Patentes (qui doivent estre verifiées en la Chambre des comptes.) Privilegié: m. ée: f. Priuiledged; exempted from ordinarie dueties, or iurisdiction; out of ordinarie course.   Cas, ou delict privilegié. A notable case, or notorious crime, which none but the King, or his Judges, may examine, sentence, or censure.

Privoité. as Privauté. Prix: m. Price; Looke Pris. Probabilité: f. Probabilitie, likelihood, apparance of truth.

Probable: com. Probable, proueable, which may be proued, likelie, or like to be true.

Probablement. Probably, likely, proueably.

Probableté. as Probabilité. Probation: f. A probation, proofe; approbation, prouing.

Probatique. Piscine pro. A Pond for the washing of the Sheepe that were, by the Law, to be sacrificed.

Probité: f. Honestie, integritie, sinceritie, goodnesse, vp-*rightnesse, true dealing.

Problematique: com. Problematicall, belonging to a Probleme.

Probleme: m. A Probleme; a proposition, position, or sentence, hauing a question annexed vnto it.

Probosce: f. A big snowt, huge nose.

Proboscide. The trunke, or snowt of an Elephant.

Procace: m. The Post, or Carrier that goeth weekely betweene Rome and Naples.

Procedé. Proceeded; passed forth, gone forward; held, continued, or kept on in a course; also, sued, or pursued.

Proceder. To proceed, goe forward, passe forth; continue, hold, or keepe on in a course; also, to sue, or pursue.  Proceder sommairement. Looke Sommairement. Fins de non proceder. Reasons alledged for the staying of further proceedings in Court.  Iamais ne gaigne qui procede à son Maistre: Pro. He neuer thriues that sues his Maister. Longuement proceder est à l'advocat vendenger: Pro. Delayes in Law fill Pleaders Barnes.

Procedure: f. A procedure; a course, or proceeding; a course of proceeding; a suing, a pursuing.

Procerité: f. Height, or length of bodie; tallnesse of stature.

Procés: m. A Proces, or Suit; a Case, Cause, Action, Jndictment, Matter, in Law; also, debate, strife, suit, altercation, contention; also, the Processe, Apophyse, or out-standing part of a bone. Procez mamillaires. Small teat-like sinewes in the forepart of the braine; th' instruments of the sence of smelling. Vn diable en procés. A notable stirring, vnquiet, or litigious fellow. Faire le procés à. To appeach, or indite; to sit vpon life and death on. Son procés est faict. His cause is readie for Iudge-*
 * ment; also, he is conuicted, or condemned; he is but a dead (but a gone) man.  Pendre vn procés au croc. See Croc.   Perdre son procés. To be cast in Law.   De procés ou gist grosse amende, en tous temps bon heur nous defende: Pro. From suits that subiect be to grieuous fines, good Lord deliuer vs.   En procés il n'y a point d'amour: Pro. There is no loue 'tweene lawing aduersaries; or, there is no loue 'mong those that goe to Law.

Processeux: m. euse: f. as Processif; or full of actions, filled with suits.

Processif: m. iue: f. Litigious, debatefull, wrangling, alwayes in suits, euer at Law.

Procession: f. A procession.

Processional: m. ale: f. Processionall; belonging to, seruing for, a procession.

Prochain: m. aine: f. Nigh, neere, next, neighbouring, adioyning, close to, hard by.

Prochainement. Neerely, nighly; next, or last.

Prochaineté: f. Nighnesse, neereneße, proximitie, neighbourhood.

Prochas: m. A purchase; a pursuit.

Prochasser. Looke Pourchasser. Proche: com. Neere, nigh, neighbouring, adioyning, close vnto.

Prochefief: m. The Fief, or Inheritance thats held of a Lord by a direct, and immediate tenure.

Procidence: f. A falling downe of a thing out of it right place.

Proclamation: f. A proclamation, a proclaiming.

Proclamé: m. ée: f. Proclaimed.

Proclamer. To proclaime, to publish by proclamation.

Proclameur: m. A proclaimer.

Proclif: m. iue: f. Jnclining, bending; subiect, or inclined, vnto; prone, apt, readie to fall.

Procours. as Parcours. Procrastination: f. A procrastination, delay, driuing off from day to day, putting ouer till to morrow.

Procrastiné: m. ée: f. Procrastinated, driuen off, or put ouer, from day to day.

Procrastiner. To procrastinate, prolong, delay, driue, or put off, deferre from day to day.

Procreateur: m. A procreator, begetter, ingendrer, (second) maker.

Procreation: f. A procreation, ingendring, begetting.

Procreatrice: f. A procreatrix; a mother, or damme.

Procréer. To procreate, ingender, beget, breed, make.

Proculteur. Vsed sometimes in stead of Procureur. Procuration: f. A procuration; a Warrant, or Letter, of Atturney; a following of another mans businesse by warrant; also, a Visitation executed by an Archdeacon, or some other, as the Bishops Deputie.  Passer procuration. To appoint an Atturney, or Deputie; to make one a Warrant, or Letter of Atturney, for the following of his businesse; also, to yeeld, graunt, or agree vnto.

Procuré: m. ée: f. Procured, made; solicited.

Procurer. To procure, get, purchase, acquire; to solicite, or follow a cause.

Procureur: m. A Proctor; an Atturney at Law. Procureur fiscal. The ordinarie Proctor, or Atturney of a Lord high Iusticier; who by him prosecutes (within his owne Territories) all causes that either concerne the rights, and dependances of his Seigniorie; or tend to the maintenance of the Peace, and safetie of his vassalls. Procureurs d'Hospitaux. Proctors of Spittles;