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Plicate
- verb - fold into pleats, "Pleat the cloth"
Plumate
- adjective - having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft
Porcate
- - Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.
Portate
- - Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.
Predate
- verb - be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
- come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"
Prelate
- noun - a senior clergyman and dignitary
Primate
- noun - a senior clergyman and dignitary
- any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
Private
- adjective - an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines; "our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"
- concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath"
- concerning things deeply private and personal; "private correspondence"; "private family matters"
- confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy; "a private place"; "private discussions"; "private lessons"; "a private club"; "a private secretary"; "private property"; "the former President is now a private citizen"; "public figures struggle to maintain a private life"
- not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts"
Probate
- noun - a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate
- Confirmation of a will
- establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents)
- put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence
- the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements
Prolate
- adjective - having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis"
- rounded like an egg