Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Law The person who is the subject of a question or action.
- noun A person to whom descendants are commonly related.
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- noun The first identified case of an
inherited disease in a family. Theproband or index case. Propositus applies when the patient is male;proposita if female.
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- noun the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It may be that when our arboreal propositus descended from his palm-tree and began to walk upright about the earth, his progeny were forthwith committed to a journey in which to-day is only a way-station.
Beyond Life 1921
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(Augsburg, 1727), and an "Archiepiscopatus Salisburgensis chronologice propositus" (Vienna, 1729).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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By Leo IX he was also appointed propositus or promisor
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The private apartments of the palace were governed by a favorite eunuch, who, in the language of that age, was styled the propositus, or præfect of the sacred bed-chamber.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Iconismns hujus nami ab anctore initom in hujus urbis numis. propositus urbis nomen scribit BENVEN - m.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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But he goes still further: "_deum igitur te scito esse_: si quidem deus est qui viget qui sentit qui meminit: qui providet, qui tam regit et moderatur et movet id corpus cui propositus est, quam hunc mundum ille princeps deus, et ut mundum ex quadam parte mortalem ipse deus aeternus, sic fragile corpus animus sempiternus movet." [
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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