Part 128

_se_ =prévaloir=, _v.r._, to take advantage, to avail one’s self; to boast of, to pride one’s self upon; to glory in. _Se — de sa naissance_; to take advantage of, _or_ to glory in, one’s birth.

=prévaricateur=, _n.m._, prevaricator; betrayer of any one’s trust.

=prévaricat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, prevaricating.

=prévarication=, _n.f._, prevarication; breach of trust.

=prévariquer=, _v.n._, to prevaricate, to betray one’s trust.

=prévenance= (pré-vnans), _n.f._, kindness, kind attention.

=prévenant=, =-e=, _adj._, prepossessing; engaging; ready to oblige, attentive, obliging, kind. _Il a un air —_; he has a prepossessing look.

=prévenir= (pré-vnir), _v.a._, to go before, to precede, to come before, to be beforehand with, to get the start of, to anticipate; to forestall; to prevent, to hinder; to prepossess, to prejudice; to predispose, to bias, to inform, to warn; to caution, to give notice; to let know. _— le mal_; to prevent evil. _— les objections_; to forestall objections. _— les besoins de quelqu’un_; to anticipate any one’s wants. _Il m’a fait — de son arrivée_; he sent to tell me of his arrival. _On vous en avait prévenu_; you had had information of it _or_ you had been informed of it.

_se_ =prévenir=, _v.r._, to be prepossessed; to be prejudiced, to anticipate each other. _Se — en faveur de quelqu’un_; to take a liking to any one.

=préventi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, preventive.

=prévention=, _n.f._, prepossession, prejudice, bias; suspicion, presumption; prevention; accusation; (jur.) prosecution; (jur.) commitment. _Donner des —s contre soi_; to raise prejudices against one’s self. _Vaincre les —s de quelqu’un_; to overcome any one’s prejudices. _Etat de —_; (jur.) commitment. _Être en état de —_; (jur.) to be committed for trial.

=préventivement=, _adv._, by way of prevention; (jur.) while awaiting trial, on suspicion.

=prévenu=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, (jur.) prisoner (before trial), the accused, the prisoner (at the bar).

=prévision=, _n.f._, prevision; forecast; foreknowledge; conjecture.

=prévoir=, _v.a._, to foresee; to conjecture; to expect, to anticipate, to provide (for _or_ against); to meet. _Il faut tout —_; we must provide against everything, against all eventualities.

=prévôt=, _n.m._, provost; (nav.) marshal. _Grand —_, _grand — de l’armée_; (milit.) provost-marshal. _— de salle d’armes_; fencing-master’s assistant. _— des marchands_; (old) mayor of Paris.

=prévôtal=, =-e=, _adj._, relating, pertaining to a provost.

=prévôtalement= (-tal-mān), _adv._, by a provost-court.

=prévôté=, _n.f._, provostship.

=prévoyance=, _n.f._, foresight, forethought, prudence, caution. _Rien n’échappe à sa —_; nothing escapes his foresight.

=prévoyant=, =-e=, _adj._, provident, prudent, careful, cautious.

=priapée=, _n.f._, obscene picture; obscene poem.

=priapisme=, _n.m._, (med.) priapism.

=prié=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, person invited, guest.

=prie-dieu=, _n.m._, (_—_) praying-desk; devotion-chair; faldstool.

=prier=, _v.a._ and _n._, to pray; to entreat, to beseech, to call upon, to beg (of), to implore, to supplicate, to request; to invite, to bid. _— quelqu’un d’une grâce_; to request a favor of any one. _Il m’a prié de l’accompagner_; he begged of me to accompany him. _On m’a prié de le faire_; I have been requested to do it. _Je vous en prie_; I beg of you. _— à dîner_; to invite to dinner. _— de dîner_; to press any one to stay to dinner. _Se faire —_ or _aimer à se faire —_; to require pressing.

=prière=, _n.f._, prayer, suit, request, entreaty, desire, invitation; petition. _Instante —_; earnest prayer. _Faire une — à quelqu’un_; to make a request to any one. _Être en —_; to be at prayers. _Faire une chose à la — de quelqu’un_; to do a thing at any one’s request, at any one’s entreaty. _Dire ses —s_, _faire sa —_, _faire ses —s_; to say one’s prayers. _— de faire renvoyer la lettre!_ will you kindly send back the letter!

=prieur=, _n.m._, prior (superior of a convent).

=prieure=, _n.f._, prioress.

=prieuré=, _n.m._, priory.

=prima donna=, _n.f._, (_prime donne_) the chief singer (in an opera).

=primage=, _n.m._, (com.) primage (allowance paid to the captain of a ship).

=primaire=, _adj._, primary. _Ecole —_; elementary school.

=primat=, _n.m._, primate, metropolitan.

=primatial=, =-e= (-ci-al), _adj._, primatial, primatical.

=primatie= (-ma-cî), _n.f._, primacy, primateship.

=primauté=, _n.f._, primacy, supremacy, priority; preeminence; the lead (at cards, dice). _Gagner quelqu’un de —_; to anticipate any one, to be beforehand with any one.

=prime=, _adj._, (alg.) accented. _b’_, _b —_; b’, b accented.

=prime=, _n.f._, premium, bounty; bonus, prize; (c.rel.) prime (first canonical hour succeeding lauds); (fenc.) prime; primero (card game); (com.) prime wool; (jewelry) pebble; (exchange language) agio; (customs) drawback. _A —_; at a premium. _Réponse des —s_; (com.) option.

_de_ =prime abord=, _adv._, at first.

_de_ =prime face=, _adv._, at first, _prima facie_.

=primer=, _v.n._, to play first, to lead (at play); to take the lead, to beat, to override, to excel, to surpass; to go before everything. _Il prime en tout_; he excels in everything. _Les affaires priment tout_; business before everything else.

=primer=, _v.a._, to surpass, to excel; to go before everything; to give a prize (at an agricultural show). _Il prime tous les autres_; he excels all the others.

=de prime-saut=, _adv._, suddenly; off-hand, spontaneously; all at once, at the first effort.

=prime-sauti-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, quick (of thought), ready-witted; impulsive, off-handed; thoughtless, inconsiderate, heedless. _Les Français ont, en général, l’esprit —_; the French are, in general, ready-witted.

=primeur=, _n.f._, first of the season (of vegetables, fruit, flowers, wine); early fruit; early vegetables; early flower; early sentiment, first love; freshness, bloom; earliest communication. _Les fruits sont chers dans la —_; fruit is dear in the early part of the season, fruit is dear when it first comes in. _Certains vins ne sont pas bons dans la —_; certain wines are not good when they are new. _Servir à table un plat de —s_; to serve up a dish of early vegetables. _Je vous en donnerai la —_; you will be the first to get the news.

=primevère=, _n.f._, primrose, cowslip, oxlip.

=primicériat=, _n.m._, dignity, office of primicerius, dean (in some churches).

=primicier=, _n.m._, local dean.

=primidi=, _n.m._, Primidi (first day of the decade in the calendar of the first French republic).

=primipare=, _adj._, primiparous.

=primiti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, primitive, primeval, primogenial, original; native, aboriginal; (gram.) primitive, original.

=primitif=, _n.m._, (gram.) primitive.

=primitivement= (-tiv-mān), _adv._, primitively, originally.

=primitivité=, _n.f._, primitiveness.

=primo=, _adv._, firstly, first, in the first place.

=primogéniture=, _n.f._, primogeniture.

=primordial=, =-e=, _adj._, primordial.

=primordialement= (-al-mān), _adv._, primordially.

=primulacées=, _n.f.pl._, (bot.) primulaceæ.

=prince=, _n.m._, prince. _— royal_; crown prince. _Être bon —_; (fam.) to be a good fellow (easy-going, good-natured). _Vivre en —_; to live like a prince. _Dîner de —_; princely dinner.

=princeps= (-sèps), _adj. invariable_, (print.) earliest, first, original (edition).

=princerie= (prin-srî), _n.f._, (local) deanery.

=princesse=, _n.f._, princess. _Oui, ma —_; (fam.) yes, my charmer.

=princi-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, princely, like a prince.

=princier=, _n.m._, primicerius, first dignitary. _V._ =primicier=.

=principal=, =-e=, _adj._, principal, chief, main; leading, capital, senior, superior; (astron.) primary.

=principal=, _n.m._, principal, chief thing, principal point, chief point, material point; principal, capital (money); principal, head-master; (jur.) principal cause of action. _Pour vous, le — est que vous ayez soin de votre santé_; the main thing for you is to take care of your health. _Payer le — et l’intérêt_; to pay both principal and interest.

=principalat=, _n.m._, head-mastership, principalship.

=principalement= (-pal-mān), _adv._, principally, chiefly.

☉=principalité=, _n.f._ _V._ =principalat=.

=principat=, _n.m._, princedom.

=principauté=, _n.f._, principality, princedom.

=principe=, _n.m._, beginning, source, outset, origin, motive, cause, principle. _pl._, principles, rudiments. _Dès le —_; from the very origin. _Etablir_, _poser_, _un —_; to establish, to lay down, a principle. _Partir d’un —_; to start from a principle. _Homme sans —s_; unprincipled man. _L’amour-propre est le — de presque toutes nos actions_; self-love is the motive of almost all our actions.

=principion=, =principule=, _n.m._, petty prince, princelet.

=printani-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, spring, spring-like, vernal; youthful; early. _Fleurs —ères_; spring-flowers; cowslips. _Etoffes —ères_; spring materials, _or_ stuffs; spring goods. _Potage —_; spring-soup (with early vegetables).

=printemps= (-tān), _n.m._, spring, spring-time; prime, bloom. _Le — de la vie_; the morning of life. _Dans le — de sa vie_; in the prime of one’s days. _Au — de ses jours_; in the bloom of one’s youth.

_à_ =priori=, _adv._, à priori (_i.e._ from what precedes).

=priorité=, _n.f._, priority.

=pris=, =-e=, _part._, taken, caught, seized, congealed, curdled, frozen, frozen over; stuffed up (of the nose). _Homme bien — dans sa taille_; well-set man. _Cet homme est — de vin_; that man is the worse for liquor. _La rivière a — dans la nuit_; the river was frozen over in the night. _— dans les glaces_; ice-bound.

=prisable=, _adj._, estimable, valuable.

=prise=, _n.f._, taking, capture; prize; hold, handle, purchase; quarrel; dose; pinch. _pl._, fighting, close quarters. _La — d’une ville_; the taking of a town. _— de possession_; taking possession. _— de possession d’un bénéfice_; induction to a living. _— d’habit_; (c.rel.) taking the habit, _or_ the veil. _Décret de — de corps_; writ of arrest. _Part de —_; prize-money. _Amariner une —_; to man a prize. _Être de bonne —_; to be a lawful prize. _Lâcher —_; to let go one’s hold. _Donner — à la critique_; to lay one’s self open to criticism, to expose one’s self to criticism, to afford matter for criticism. _Donner — sur soi à son ennemi_; to give one’s enemy a hold over one. _— de tabac_; pinch of snuff. _En venir aux —s_; to grapple with one another, to come to blows. _Les deux chiens sont aux —s_; the two dogs are fighting. _Être aux —s avec la mauvaise fortune_; to be struggling with, _or_ against, adversity. _Être aux —s avec la mort_; to be on the point of death, _or_ at death’s door; to be in great danger. _Mettre aux —s_; to set (together) by the ears.

=prisée=, _n.f._, estimate, appraisement, valuation. _Faire la — de_; to make an estimate of.

=priser=, _v.a._, to prize, to rate, to value, to set a high price on, to appraise, to estimate; to esteem, to have an esteem for.

_se_ =priser=, _v.r._, to be valued, to be esteemed; to set a high value on one’s self.

=priser=, _v.a._ and _n._, to take snuff.

=priseu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, snuff-taker.

=priseur=, _adj._, who appraises. _Commissaire —_; appraiser, auctioneer. _Expert — assermenté_; sworn appraiser.

=prismatique=, _adj._, prismatic.

=prisme=, _n.m._, prism.

=prismoïde=, _n.m._ and _adj._, prismoid; prismoidal.

=prison=, _n.f._, prison, gaol, jail; imprisonment, confinement. _S’échapper de —_; to break out of prison. _— d’état_; state prison. _Être dans la — de saint Crépin_; to wear shoes which pinch. _Envoyer en —_; to send to prison.

=prisonni-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, prisoner. _— d’état_; state-prisoner.

=privati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (gram.) privative; (jur.) in severalty.

=privation=, _n.f._, privation, deprivation, want, need, bereavement, loss; hardship. _Vivre de —s_; to lead a life of privation. _Être dans la —_; to be in want. _La — de la vue_; the loss of sight.

=privativement= (-tiv-mān), _adv._, exclusively.

=privauté=, _n.f._, extreme familiarity, liberty. _Prendre des —s_; to take liberties.

=privé=, =-e=, _part._, deprived. _Corps — de vie_; lifeless body. _Homme — de sa raison_; man deprived of his reason.

=privé=, =-e=, _adj._, private; tame (animal); privy, intimate, free. _Vie —e_; private life. _De son autorité —e_; of one’s own authority.

☉=privément=, _adv._, familiarly, intimately.

=priver=, _v.a._, to deprive, to debar; to bereave; to tame (animal). _— quelqu’un de ses biens_; to deprive any one of his property. _Je ne veux pas vous — de cela_; I won’t rob you of that.

_se_ =priver=, _v.r._, to deprive, _or_ debar, one’s self; to stint, _or_ deny, one’s self; to abstain (from).

=privilège=, _n.m._, privilege, exemption, immunity; grant, favor; (jur.) preference; (thea.) license; franchise, prerogative, right. _Accorder un — à_; to grant a privilege to; to license (printers). _Priver de ses —s_; to deprive any one of his privileges; to disfranchise. _Atteinte portée aux —s_; breach of privilege. _Les —s de la noblesse_; the privileges of the nobility.

=privilégié=, =-e=, _adj._, privileged, exempt; (thea.) licensed; (jur.) entitled to preference (of creditors); (of shares) preference, preferential. _Lieu —_; privileged place. _C’est un être —_; he is a privileged, _or_ favored, being.

=privilégié=, _n.m._, privileged person.

=privilégier=, _v.a._, to grant a privilege, to privilege, to license.

=prix=, _n.m._, price, cost, value, worth, terms; return, premium; estimation; reward; prize. _— fait_; settled price. _Mettre un — à_; to set a price upon. _— excessif_; extravagant price. _Juste —_; moderate price. _— de fabrique_; manufacturer’s price. _Une chose de —_; a thing of great value. _Hors de —_; extravagantly dear. _De —_; precious, valuable. _Une chose qui n’a point de —_; a thing that is invaluable, beyond all price. _Vendre à tout —_; to sell at any price, at any cost. _Mettre la tête d’un homme à —_; to set a price upon a man’s head. _— fixe_; (com.) net price, no abatement. _À tout — or à quelque — que ce soit_; cost what it will. _La vertu trouve son — en elle-même_; virtue is its own reward. _Remporter le —_; to carry off the prize. _Au — de_; at the cost of, in comparison with. _À vil —_; under price, dirt-cheap. _— courant_; (com.) current price, market price. _— coûtant_; cost price. _À — d’argent_; for money. _N’avoir pas de —_; to be invaluable, _or_ priceless; also, to be valueless.

=probabilisme=, _n.m._, probabilism.

=probabilité=, _n.f._, probability, likelihood.

=probable=, _adj._, probable, likely, credible. _Cela est bien peu —_; that is anything but probable.

=probablement=, _adv._, probably, likely.

=probante=, _adj.f._, probatory (of documents); convincing, conclusive (arguments). _En forme —_; in an authentic form. _Raison —_; convincing reason.

=probation=, _n.f._, probation.

=probatique=, _adj._, only used in _piscine —_ (the reservoir near the Temple in which Hebrew Priests washed the animals that were to be sacrificed).

☉=probatoire=, _adj._, probatory.

=probe=, _adj._, honest, upright; of probity. _Homme —_; man of probity.

=probité=, _n.f._, probity, honesty, integrity, uprightness. _— éprouvée_; tried probity.

=problématique=, _adj._, problematical.

=problématiquement= (-tik-mān), _adv._, problematically.

=problème=, _n.m._, problem, question. _Poser un —_; to state a problem. _Résoudre un —_; to solve a problem. _C’est un —_; it is a question.

=proboscide=, _n.f._, (natural hist., her.) proboscis.

=proboscidiens=, _n.m.pl._, (zoöl.) proboscidians, proboscideæ.

=procédé=, _n.m._, behavior, proceeding, way of acting; dealing, conduct; (billiards) cue-tip; process, operation. _pl._, delicate, gentlemanly manners, fair dealings. _Je n’aime pas ces —s_; I don’t like that way of acting, I dislike those manners. _Manquer aux —s_; to behave in an unhandsome manner. _C’est un homme à —s_; he is a gentlemanly man, _or_ a man of fair dealings. _— chimique_; chemical process.

=procéder=, _v.n._, to proceed, to go on; to come from; to arise (from), to originate (in); to behave, to conduct one’s self; (jur.) to proceed. _— criminellement contre quelqu’un_; to proceed (criminally) against any one. _Cela procède bien_; that is going on very well.

=procédure=, _n.f._, (jur.) proceedings; practice, procedure, process.

=procès=, _n.m._, lawsuit, suit, action, trial, process. _Être en —_; to be at law. _Intenter un —_, _faire un —_, _à quelqu’un_; to bring an action against any one, to institute proceedings against any one. _Gagner son —_; to gain one’s suit, _or_ case. _Perdre son —_; to lose one’s case. _Faire le — à quelqu’un_; to try any one, to bring any one to trial; to call any one to account, to find fault with, to censure. _Sans autre forme de —_; without more ado, without further formality.

=processi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, litigious.

=procession=, _n.f._, procession.

=processionnal=, _n.m._, (c.rel.) processional.

=processionnel=, =-le=, _adj._, processional.

=processionnellement= (-nèl-mān), _adv._, in procession.

=procès-verbal=, _n.m._, (_—-verbaux_) (authentic written minute, _or_ report, of an official act _or_ proceeding); proceedings, official report, information against; (parl.) journal, minute of proceedings.

=prochain=, =-e=, _adj._, near, nearest, next, approaching, near at hand, nigh, approximate, proximate; (com.) proximo. _Village —_; neighboring village. _Le mois —_; next month. _La semaine —e_; next week. _Son départ est —_; his departure is nigh at hand, _or_ imminent. _Fin —e_; approaching end. _Fin —_; (com.) at the end of next month.

=prochain=, _n.m._, neighbor, fellow-creature.

=prochainement= (-shé-n-mān), _adv._, in a short time, shortly, soon.

=prochaineté=, _n.f._, nearness, proximity.

=proche=, _adj._, near, next, near at hand, neighboring, nigh, approaching. _La ville la plus —_; the nearest town. _— parent_; near relation.

=proche=, _prep._, near, nigh.

=proche=, _adv._, near, nigh. _De — en —_; from place to place; gradually, one after another. _Le choléra s’étendit rapidement de — en —_; the cholera spread rapidly from place to place.

=proches=, _n.m.pl._, near relations, near relatives; relations, relatives, kinsmen, kin, kindred.

=prochronisme=, _n.m._, prochronism.

=procidence=, _n.f._, (med.) prolapsus.

=proclamateur=, _n.m._, proclaimer, proclaiming.

=proclamation=, _n.f._, proclamation.

=proclamer=, _v.a._, to proclaim, to cry out, to give out, to announce, to trumpet forth; to publish, to declare.

=proclitique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (gram.) unaccented word; unaccented.

=proclive=, _adj._, inclined.

=proclivité=, _n.f._, proclivity.

=procombant=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) procumbent.

=proconsul=, _n.m._, (Roman hist.) proconsul.

=proconsulaire=, _adj._, (Roman hist.) proconsular.

=proconsulat=, _n.m._, (Roman hist.) proconsulship.

=procréateur=, _adj._, procreative, procreating.

=procréation=, _n.f._, procreation.

=procréer=, _v.a._, to procreate, to beget.

=procurateur=, _n.m._, procurator, proxy.

=procuratie= (-ci), _n.f._, procuracy (at Venice); procurator’s palace.

=procuration=, _n.f._, procuration, power of attorney, letter of attorney, warrant of attorney; proxy (deed).

=procuratrice=, _n.f._ _V._ =procureur=.

=procurer=, _v.a._, to procure, to obtain, to help to, to get. _— une charge à quelqu’un_; to procure, to obtain, to get, a post for any one.

_se_ =procurer=, _v.r._, to procure, to obtain, to get for one’s self; to be procured, to be obtained, to be procurable. _Se — de l’argent_; to obtain money. _Ce poisson se procure très-difficilement_; this sort of fish is hard to get.

=procur-eur=, _n.m._, =-atrice=, _n.f._, proxy. _Agir par —_; to act by proxy.

=procureur=, _n.m._, ☉solicitor, attorney, procurator. ☉_— fiscal_; (feudalism) lord’s attorney; purveyor (of monastic orders). _— général_; Attorney General. _— du roi_, _— impérial_, _— de la république_; public prosecutor.

=procureuse=, _n.f._, procuress; bawd.

=prodigalement= (-gal-mān), _adv._, prodigally, extravagantly, lavishly, profusely.

=prodigalité=, _n.f._, prodigality, profusion, extravagance, lavishness.

=prodige=, _n.m._, prodigy, wonder, marvel.

=prodigieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, prodigiously, wonderfully, wondrously, marvelously; stupendously.

=prodigieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, prodigious, wondrous, wonderful, marvelous; vast, stupendous.

=prodigue=, _adj._, prodigal, profuse, lavish, wasteful. _L’enfant —_; the prodigal son.

=prodigue=, _n.m.f._, prodigal, spendthrift, squanderer.

=prodiguer= (-ghé), _v.a._, to lavish, to waste, to squander away, to be prodigal of, to be lavish of, to throw away. _— sa vie_; to expose one’s life.

_se_ =prodiguer=, _v.r._, to be lavished, to be thrown away; to expose one’s self.

=prodrome=, _n.m._, introduction, preface; (med.) premonitory symptoms.

=product-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, productive, producing.

=producteur=, _n.m._, (polit. econ.) producer.

=productibilité=, _n.f._, producibleness.

=productible=, _adj._, producible.

=producti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, productive.

=production=, _n.f._, act of producing, production; (jur.) exhibition (of deeds); (jur.) deeds exhibited; (anat.) process, growth.

=productivement=, _adv._, productively.

=productivité=, _n.f._, productiveness.

=produire= (produisant, produit), _v.a._, to produce, to bring forth; to bear, to yield, to be worth; to be productive of, to be the cause of; to breed, to generate, to show, to exhibit, to adduce; to make known. _— des titres_; to show title-deeds. _— des témoins_; to bring forward witnesses. _Cette charge produit dix mille francs par an_; this office, _or_ post, is worth four hundred a year. _La guerre produit de grands maux_; war is productive of, _or_ begets, great evils. _— un jeune homme dans le monde_; to introduce a young man into society; to bring out, _or_ make known, a young man.

_se_ =produire=, _v.r._, to introduce one’s self, to put one’s self forward, to make one’s way; to be produced, _or_ brought forth; to occur, to happen, to manifest itself.

=produire=, _v.n._, (jur.) to deliver particulars, to show title-deeds.

=produit=, _n.m._, produce, product, yield; production, exhibit; (arith., geom.) product, proceeds. _Il vit du — de sa terre_; he lives on the produce of his land. _—s agricoles_; agricultural produce. _— chimique_; chemical product. _— net_; (com.) net proceeds.

=proême=, _n.m._, proem, preface, prelude, introduction.

=proéminence=, _n.f._, prominence, protuberance, projection.

=proéminent=, =-e=, _adj._, prominent, protuberant.

=profanateur=, _n.m._, profaner.

=profanation=, _n.f._, profanation.

=profane=, _adj._, profane, secular, unworthy.

=profane=, _n.m.f._, profane person, unlearned person; outsider, black sheep; the vulgar herd.

=profaner=, _v.a._, to profane, to defile, to pollute; to desecrate. _C’est — le talent que de faire cela_; it is a profanation of talent to do that.

=proférer=, _v.a._, to utter, to speak; to pronounce. _Se —_; to be uttered.

=prof-ès=, =-esse=, _n._ and _adj._, professed friar; professed nun; professed.

=professer=, _v.a._, to profess, to make a profession of; to exercise, to practice, to teach, to be a professor of, to lecture on. _— le plus grand respect pour quelqu’un_; to profess the greatest respect for any one. _— une science_; to teach a science. _— un métier_; to practise a trade, to exercise a calling.

=professer=, _v.a._ and _n._, to be a professor, to be a lecturer; to lecture, to teach.

=professeur=, _n.m._, professor; teacher; lecturer; practicer (of an art or calling). _Chaire de —_; professorship. _— en droit_; professor of law.

=profession=, _n.f._, profession, declaration; profession (occupation), calling; trade, business. _Il fait — de bel esprit_; he sets up for a wit. _De quelle — est-il?_ what is his profession? _Dévot de —_; professed bigot.

=professionnel=, =-le=, _adj._, professional.

_ex_ =professo=, _adv._, ex professo; thoroughly; in a professional manner.