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PRONUNCIATION OF PROFECTITIOUS

profectitious  [prəfekˈtɪʃəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROFECTITIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Profectitious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PROFECTITIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of profectitious in the English dictionary

The definition of profectitious in the dictionary is proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROFECTITIOUS


ablatitious
ˌæbləˈtɪʃəs
addititious
ˌædɪˈtɪʃəs
adscititious
ˌædsɪˈtɪʃəs
adventitious
ˌædvɛnˈtɪʃəs
ascititious
ˌæsɪˈtɪʃəs
cementitious
ˌsɪmɛnˈtɪʃəs
excrementitious
ˌekskrɪmenˈtɪʃəs
factitious
fækˈtɪʃəs
fermentitious
ˌfɜːmɛnˈtɪʃəs
fictitious
fɪkˈtɪʃəs
obreptitious
ˌɒbrɛpˈtɪʃəs
recrementitious
ˌrɛkrɪmənˈtɪʃəs
repetitious
ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃəs
stalactitious
ˌstæləkˈtɪʃəs
subreptitious
ˌsʌbrepˈtɪʃəs
supposititious
səˌpɒzɪˈtɪʃəs
surreptitious
ˌsʌrəpˈtɪʃəs
tralaticious
ˌtræləˈtɪʃəs
tralatitious
ˌtræləˈtɪʃəs
triticeous
trɪˈtɪʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROFECTITIOUS

profascist
profeminist
profess
professed
professedly
profession
profession of faith
professional
professional advice
professional army
professional association
professional foul
Professional Golfers´ Association
professional misconduct
professional school
professionalisation
professionalise
professionalism
professionalist
professionalization

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROFECTITIOUS

ambitious
captious
cautious
conscientious
contentious
delicious
expeditious
facetious
flirtatious
infectious
nutritious
ostentatious
pretentious
rambunctious
scrumptious
superstitious
tendentious
tortious
unambitious
unpretentious
vexatious

Synonyms and antonyms of profectitious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «profectitious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROFECTITIOUS

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Translator English - Chinese

profectitious
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

profectitious
570 millions of speakers

English

profectitious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

profectitious
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

profectitious
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

profectitious
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

profectitious
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

profectitious
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

profectitious
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jujur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

profectitious
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

profectitious
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

profectitious
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Profèktif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

profectitious
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

profectitious
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रास्ताविक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

profectitious
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

profectitious
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

profectitious
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

profectitious
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

profectitious
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

profectitious
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

profectitious
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

profectitious
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

profectitious
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of profectitious

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROFECTITIOUS»

The term «profectitious» is normally little used and occupies the 146.336 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROFECTITIOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «profectitious» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «profectitious» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about profectitious

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROFECTITIOUS»

Discover the use of profectitious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to profectitious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Digest of Justinian
much of a father's property should be given to his daughter as a dowry since he has been captured by the enemy or caught by bandits; this is also held to be profectitious. 5. According to Julian, a dowry is not profectitious where a father refuses ...
Alan Watson, 2011
2
The Civil Law Including the Twelve Tables, the Institutes of ...
(10) Where a son under paternal control promises a dowry, and gives it after having become his own master, it is profectitious, for he does not pay the money as a debt of the estate of his father, but as a debt of his own contracted when he was ...
3
A Casebook on Roman Family Law
A dowry is "profectitious" (profecticia) when it has "traveled" (profecta est) from the property or from a transaction of a (wife's) father or (other) male ascendant. (1 ) So the dowry is profectitious if the ascendant gave the dowry or if his procurator  ...
Bruce W. Frier, Thomas A. McGinn, 2004
4
Honour and Disgrace: Women and the Law in Early Modern Catalonia
In this regard, the distinction between profectitious and adventitious dowries, according to their donors, makes sense. G.M. Brocá defines profectitious dowries as those provided by the father or any other ancestor from the paternal side, and  ...
Isabel Pérez Molina, 2001
5
A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used in Ancient and Modern Law
In Scotch law, written documents and other things produced to defend or support an action. Profane. Not consecrated. Profanity. Profane speech which disturbs the peace. . PROFECTITIOUS 648 PROLYT.E Profectitious. Proceeding forth, as  ...
Arthur English, 2000
6
Rome the Law-Giver
If there were children living, the husband always retained the dowry in their interest, even when it was profectitious; if not, he retained more or less of the adventitious dowry according to the number of children he had had or the duration of the ...
J. Declareuil, 2013
7
Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages
Of the two kinds ofdos Dos is of two kinds, profectitious and adventitious: profectitious is that given by a father or mother or other parent when the agreement for marrying a daughter is made. The land so given, which may be called her ...
Conor McCarthy, 2013
8
The Frederician code: or, A body of law for the dominions of ...
It further results from this unity of persons, that if the children obtain possession of a thing which makes part of the ordinary profectitious or adventitious peculium, or proper stock, the father obtains it by the deed of his children, even when he ...
Prussia (Kingdom), Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey, Alexandre-Auguste de Campagne, 1761
9
The Civil law, including the Twelve tables: the Institutes ...
(10) Where a son under paternal control promises a dowry, and gives it after having become his own master, it is profectitious, for he does not pay the money as a debt of the estate of his father, but as a debt of his own contracted when he was ...
Gaius, Julius Paulus, Ulpian, 1973
10
A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two ...
PROFEC.'A, Sec. See PROPHE- CIA, &c. PROFECTl'CIO, a, adj. (in the civil law) profectitious. Ex. Bens pro- ftéìuios, profectitious goods, i e. foc h goods as descend in a direct Iine, frora father to son, in opposition to adventitious. PROFERI DO ...
Antonio Vieyra, 1773

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