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Prismatoidal

PRISMATOID'AL, adjective [Latin prisma.] Having a prismatic form.

Prismoid

PRIS'MOID, noun [Latin prisma and Gr. form.]

A body that approaches to the form of a prism.

Prismy

PRIS'MY, adjective Pertaining to or like a prism.

Prison

PRISON, noun priz'n. [Latin prendo.]

1. In a general sense, any place of confinement or involuntary restraint; but appropriately, a public building for the confinement or safe custody of debtors and criminals committed by process of law; a jail. Originally, a prison as Lord Coke observes, was only a place of safe custody; but it is now employed as a place of punishment. We have state-prisons, for the confinement of criminals by way of punishment.

2. Any place of confinement or restraint.

The tyrant Aeolus,

With power imperial curbs the struggling winds,

And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.

3. In Scripture, a low, obscure, afflicted condition. Ecclesiastes 4:14.

4. The cave where David was confined. Psalms 142:7.

5. A state of spiritual bondage. Isaiah 42:7.

PRIS'ON, verb transitive To shut up in a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

1. To confine in any manner.

2. To captivate; to enchain.

[This word is proper, but imprison is more commonly used.]

Prison-Base

PRIS'ON-BASE, noun A kind of rural sports; commonly called prison-bars.

Prison-House

PRIS'ON-HOUSE, noun A house in which prisoners are confined; a jail. Judges 16:1.

Prisoned

PRIS'ONED, participle passive Imprisoned; confined; restrained.

Prisoner

PRIS'ONER, noun One who is confined in a prison by legal arrest or warrant.

1. A person under arrest or in custody of the sheriff, whether in prison or not; as a prisoner at the bar of a court.

2. A captive; one taken by an enemy in war.

3. One whose liberty is restrained, as a bird in a cage.

Prisoning

PRIS'ONING, participle present tense Confining; imprisoning.

Prisonment

PRIS'ONMENT, noun Confinement in a prison; imprisonment.

[The latter is commonly used.]

Pristine

PRIS'TINE, adjective [Latin pristinus. See Prior and Proe.]original; primitive; as the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; the pristine constitution of things.

Prithee

PRITH'EE, a corruption of pray thee, as I prithee; but it is generally used without the pronoun, prithee

Privacy

PRI'VACY, noun [form private.] A state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; secrecy.

1. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.

Her sacred privacies all open lie.

2. Privity. [Not used.] [See Privity.]

3. Taciturnity. [Not used.]

4. Secrecy; concealment of what is said or done.

Privado

PRIVA'DO, noun A secret friend. [Not used.]

Private

PRI'VATE, adjective [Latin privatus, from privo, to bereave, properly to strip or separate; privus, singular, several, peculiar to one's self, that is, separate; rapio, diripio, eripio; privo for perivo or berivo.]

1. Properly, separate; unconnected with others; hence, peculiar to one's self; belonging to or concerning an individual only; as a man's private opinion, business or concerns; private property; the king's private purse; a man's private expenses. Charge the money to my private account in the company's books.

2. Peculiar to a number in a joint concern, to a company or body politic; as the private interest of a family, of a company or of a state; opposed to public, or to the general interest of nations.

3. Sequestered from company or observation; secret; secluded; as a private cell; a private room or apartment; private prayer.

4. Not publicly known; not open; as a private negotiation.

5. Not invested with public office or employment; as a private man or citizen; private lift.

A private person may arrest a felon.

6. Individual; personal; in contradistinction from public or national; as private interest.

Private way, in law, is a way or passage in which a man has an interest and right, though the ground may belong to another person. In common language, a private way may be a secret way, one not known or public.

A private act or statute, is one which operates on an individual or company only; opposed to a general law, which operates on the whole community.

A private nuance or wrong, is one which affects an individual.

In private secretly; not openly or publicly.

PRI'VATE, noun A secret message; particular business. [Unusual.]

1. A common soldier.

Privateer

PRIVATEE'R, noun [from private.] A ship or vessel of war owned and equipped by a private man or by individuals, at their own expense, to seize or plunder the ships of an enemy in war. Such a ship must be licensed or commissioned by government, or it is a pirate.

PRIVATEE'R, verb intransitive To cruise in a commissioned private ship against an enemy, for seizing their ships or annoying their commerce.

Privately

PRI'VATELY, adverb In a secret manner; not openly or publicly.

1. In a manner affecting an individual or company. He is not privately benefited.

Privateness

PRI'VATENESS, noun Secrecy; privacy.

1. Retirement; seclusion from company or society.

2. The state of an individual in the rank of common citizens, or not invested with office.

Privation

PRIVA'TION, noun [Latin privatio, from privo. See Private.]

1. The state of being deprived; particularly, deprivation or absence of what is necessary for comfort. He endures his privations with wonderful fortitude.

2. The act of removing something possessed; the removal or destruction of any thing or quality. The garrison was compelled by privation to surrender.

For what is this contagious sin of kind

But a privation of that grace within?

3. Absence, in general. Darkness is a privation of light.

4. The act of the mind in separating a thing from something appendant.

5. The act of degrading from rank or office.

[But in this sense, deprivation is now used. See Deprivation.]

Privative

PRIV'ATIVE, adjective Causing privation.

1. Consisting in the absence of something; not positive. privative is in things, what negative is in propositions; as privative blessings, safeguard, liberty and integrity.

PRIV'ATIVE, noun That of which the essence is the absence of something. Blackness and darkness are privatives.

1. In grammar, a prefix to a word which changes its signification and gives it a contrary sense, as a, in Greek; unjust; un and in in English, as unwise, inhuman. The word may also be applied to suffixes, as less, in harmless.

Privatively

PRIV'ATIVELY, adverb By the absence of something.

1. Negatively.

The duty of the new covenant is set down first privatively [Unusual.]

Privativeness

PRIV'ATIVENESS, noun Notation of the absence of something.

Privet

PRIV'ET, noun A plant of the genus Ligustrum. The evergreen privet is of the genus Rhamnus. Mock privet is of the genus Phillyrea.

Privilege

PRIV'ILEGE, noun [Latin privilegium; privus, separate, private, and lex, law; originally a private law, some public act that regarded an individual.]

1. A particular and peculiar benefit or advantage enjoyed by a person, company or society, beyond the common advantages of other citizens. A privilege may be a particular right granted by law or held by custom, or it may be an exemption from some burden to which others are subject. The nobles of Great Britain have the privilege of being triable by their peers only. Members of parliament and of our legislatures have the privilege of exemption from arrests in certain cases. The powers of a banking company are privileges granted by the legislature.

He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman.

The privilege of birthright was a double portion.

2. Any peculiar benefit or advantage, right or immunity, not common to others of the human race. Thus we speak of national privileges, and civil and political privileges, which we enjoy above other nations. We have ecclesiastical and religious privileges secured to us by our constitutions of government. Personal privileges are attached to the person; as those of embassadors, peers, members of legislatures, etc. Real privileges are attached to place; as the privileges of the king's palace in England.

3. Advantage; favor; benefit.

A nation despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Writ of privilege is a writ to deliver a privileged person from custody when arrested in a civil suit.

PRIV'ILEGE, verb transitive To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; as, to privilege representatives from arrest; to privilege the officers and students of a college from military duty.

1. To exempt from ensure or danger.

This place doth privilege me.

Privileged

PRIV'ILEGED, participle passive Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right or immunity. The clergy in Great Britain were formerly a privileged body of men. No person is privileged from arrest for indictable crimes.

Privileging

PRIV'ILEGING, participle present tense Investing with a peculiar right or immunity.

Privily

PRIV'ILY, adverb [from privy.] Privately; secretly.

- False teachers among you, who shall privily bring in damnable heresies. 2 Peter 2:1.

Privity

PRIV'ITY, noun Privacy; secrecy; confidence.

I will to you, in privity discover the drift of my purpose. [Little used.]

1. Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern, which is often supposed to imply consent or concurrence.

All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the privity of the prince of Orange.

But it is usual to say, 'a thing is done with his privity and consent; ' in which phrase, privity signifies merely private knowledge.

2. Privities, in the plural, secret parts; the parts which modesty requires to be concealed.

Privy

PRIV'Y, adjective [Latin privus. See Private.]

1. Private; pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; as the privy purse; the privy confer of a king.

2. Secret; clandestine; not open or public; as a privy attempt to kill one.

3. Private; appropriated to retirement; not shown; not open for the admission of company; as a privy chamber. Ezekiel 21:14.

4. Privately knowing; admitted to the participation of knowledge with another of a secret transaction.

He would rather lose half of his kingdom than be privy to such a secret.

Myself am one made privy to the plot.

His wife also being privy to it. Acts 5:2.

5. Admitted to secrets of state. The privy council of a king consists of a number of distinguished persons selected by him to advice him in the administration of the government.

A privy verdict, is one given to the judge out of court, which is of no force unless afterward affirmed by a public verdict in court.

PRIV'Y, noun In law, a partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; as a privy in blood. Privies are of four kinds; privies in blood, as the heir to his father; privies in representation, as executors and administrators to the deceased; privies in estate, as he in reversion and he in remainder; donor and donee; lessor and lessee; privy in tenure, as the lord in escheat.

1. A necessary house.

Privy chamber, in Great Britain, the private apartment in a royal residence or mansion. Gentlemen of the privy chamber are servants of the king who are to wait and attend on him and the queen at court, in their diversions, etc. They are forty eight in number, under the lord chamberlain.

Privy-Counselor

PRIVY-COUN'SELOR, noun A member of the privy council.

Privy-counselors are made by the king's nomination without patent or grant.

Privy-Seal

PRIV'Y-SEAL

PRIVY-SIG'NET, noun In England, the seal which the king uses previously in grants, etc. which are to pass the great seal, or which he uses in matters of subordinate consequence, which do not require the great seal.

1. privy-seal is used elliptically for the principal secretary of state, or person entrusted with the privy-seal

The king's sign manual is the warrant to the privy-seal who makes out a writ or warrant thereon to the chancery. The sign manual is the warrant to the privy-seal and the privy-seal is the warrant to the great seal.

Prize

PRIZE, noun

1. That which is taken from an enemy in war; any species of goods or property seized by force as spoil or plunder; or that which is taken in combat, particularly a ship. A privateer takes an enemy's ship as a prize They make prize of all the property of the enemy.

2. That which is taken from another; that which is deemed a valuable acquisition.

Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes,

Soon to obtain and long possess the prize

3. That which is obtained or offered as the reward of contest.

--I will never wrestle for prize

I fought and conquer'd, yet have lost the prize

4. The reward gained by any performance.

5. In colloquial language, any valuable thing gained.

6. The money drawn by a lottery ticket; opposed to blank.

PRIZE, verb transitive [Latin pretium.]

1. To set or estimate the value of; to rate; as, to prize the goods specified in an invoice.

Life I prize not a straw.

2. To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.

I prize your person, but your crown disdain.

3. To raise with a lever. [See Pry.]

Prize-Fighter

PRI'ZE-FIGHTER, noun One that fights publicly for a reward.

Prized

PRI'ZED, participle passive Rated; valued; esteemed.

Prizer

PRI'ZER, noun One that estimates or sets the value of a thing.

Prizing

PRI'ZING, ppr. Rating; valuing; esteeming.

Pro

PRO, a Latin and Greek preposition, signifying for, before, forth, is probably contracted from prod, coinciding with It. proda, a prow, prode, brave; having the primary sense of moving forward. See Prodigal. In the phrase, pro and con, that is, pro and contra, it answers to the English for; for and against.

In composition, pro denotes fore, forth, forward.

Proa

PRO'A, noun Flying proa a vessel used in the south seas, with the head and stern exactly alike, but with the sides differently formed. That which is intended for the lee side is flat, the other rounding. To prevent oversetting, the vessel is furnished with a frame extended from the windward side, called an out-rigger.

Probability

PROBABIL'ITY, noun [Latin probabilitas. See Probable.]

1. Likelihood; appearance of truth; that state of a case or question of fact which results from superior evidence or preponderation of argument on one side, inclining the mind to receive it as the truth, but leaving some room for doubt. It therefore falls short of moral certainty, but produces what is called opinion.

Probability is the appearance of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears for the most part to be so.

Demonstration produces science or certain knowledge; proof produces belief, and probability opinion.

1. Any thing that has the appearance of reality or truth. In this sense, the word admits of the plural number.

The whole like of man is a perpetual comparison of evidence and balancing of probabilities.

Probable

PROB'ABLE, adjective [Latin probabilis, from probo, to prove. See Prove.]

1. Likely; having more evidence than the contrary, or evidence which inclines the mind to belief, but leaves some room for doubt.

That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than can be brought against it.

I do not say that the principles of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain.

2. That renders something probable; as probable evidence, or probable presumption.

3. That may be proved. [Not in use.]

Probably

PROB'ABLY, adverb Likely; in likelihood; with the appearance of truth or reality; as, the story is probably true; the account is probably correct.

Distinguish between what may possibly, and what will probably be done.

Probang

PRO'BANG, noun [See Probe.] In surgery, an instrument of whalebone and spunge, for removing obstructions in the throat or esophagus.

A flexible piece of whalebone, with spunge fixed to the end.

Probate

PRO'BATE, noun [Latin probatus, probo, to prove.]

1. The probate of a will or testament is the proving of its genuineness and validity, or the exhibition of the will to the proper officer, with the witnesses if necessary, and the process of determining its validity, and the registry of it, and such other proceedings as the laws prescribe, as preliminary to the execution of it by the executor.

2. The right or jurisdiction of proving wills. In England, the spiritual court has the probate of wills. In the United States, the probate of wills belongs to a court of civil jurisdiction established by law, usually to a single judge, called a judge of probate or a surrogate.

3. Proof. [Not used.]

Probation

PROBA'TION, noun [Latin probatio.] The act of proving; proof.

1. Trial; examination; any proceeding designed to ascertain truth; in universities, the examination of a student, as to his qualifications for a degree.

2. In a monastic sense, trial or the year of novitiate, which a person must pass in a convent, to prove his virtue and his ability to bear the severities of the rule.

3. Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character and being qualified for a happier state.

Probation will end with the present life.

4. In America, the trial of a clergyman's qualifications as a minister of the gospel, preparatory to his settlement. We say, a man is preaching on probation

5. In general, trial for proof, or satisfactory evidence, or the time of trial.

Probational

PROBA'TIONAL, adjective Serving for trial.

Probationary

PROBA'TIONARY, adjective Serving for trial.

All the probationary work of man is ended when death arrives.

Probationer

PROBA'TIONER, noun One who is on trial, or in a state to give proof of certain qualifications for a place or state.

While yet a young probationer

And candidate for heaven.

1. A novice.

2. In Scotland, a student in divinity, who, producing a certificate of a professor in an university of his good morals and qualifications, is admitted to several trials, and on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach.

Probationership

PROBA'TIONERSHIP, noun The state of being a probationer; novitiate. [Little used.]

Probationship

PROBA'TIONSHIP, noun A state of probation; novitiate; probation. [Little used and unnecessary.]

Probative

PRO'BATIVE, adjective Serving for trial or proof.

Probator

PROBA'TOR, noun [Latin] An examiner; an approver.

1. In law, an accuser.

Probatory

PRO'BATORY, adjective Serving for trial.

1. Serving for proof.

2. Relating to proof.

Probatum est, [Latin it is proved.] an expression subjoined to a receipt for the cure of a disease, denoting that it has been tried or proved.

Probe

PROBE, noun [Latin probo.] A surgeon's instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, or for searching for stones in the bladder and the like.

PROBE, verb transitive To examine a wound, ulcer or some cavity of the body, by the use of an instrument thrust into the part.

1. To search to the bottom; to scrutinize; to examine thoroughly into causes and circumstances.

Probe-Scissors

PRO'BE-SCISSORS, noun Scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end.

Probity

PROB'ITY, noun [Latin probitas, from probo, to prove.]

Primarily, tried virtue or integrity, or approved actions; but in general, strict honesty; sincerity; veracity; integrity in principle, or strict conformity of actions to the laws of justice. probity of mind or principle is best evinced by probity of conduct in social dealings, particularly in adhering to strict integrity in the observance and performance of rights called imperfect, which public laws to not reach and cannot enforce.

Problem

PROB'LEM, noun [Latin problema; Gr. to throw forward, and to throw; Latin pello.] A question proposed.

1. In logic, a preposition that appears neither absolutely true nor false, and consequently may be asserted either in the affirmative or negative.

2. In geometry, a proposition in which some operation or construction is required, as to divide a line or an angle, to let fall a perpendicular, etc.

3. In general, any question involving doubt or uncertainty, and requiring some operation, experiment or further evidence for its solution.

The problem is, whether a strong and constant belief that a thing will be, helps any thing to the effecting of the thing.

Problematical

PROBLEMAT'ICAL, adjective Questionable; uncertain; unsettled; disputable; doubtful.

Diligent inquiries into problematical guilt, leave a gate wide open to informers.

Problematically

PROBLEMAT'ICALLY, adverb Doubtfully; dubiously; uncertainly.

Problematize

PROB'LEMATIZE, verb transitive To propose problems. [Ill formed and not used.]

Proboscis

PROBOS'CIS, noun [Latin from Gr. before, and to feed or graze.]

The snout or trunk of an elephant and of other animals, particularly of insects. The proboscis of an elephant is a flexible muscular pipe or canal of about 8 feet in length, and is properly the extension of the nose. This is the instrument with which he takes food and carries it to his mouth. The proboscis of insects is used to suck blood from animals, or juice from plants.

Procacious

PROCA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin procax; pro, forward.]petulant; saucy. [Little used.]

Procacity

PROCAC'ITY, noun [Latin procacitas.]

Impudence; petulance. [Little used.]

Procatarctic

PROCATARC'TIC, adjective [Gr. to begin.] In medicine, pre-existing or predisposing; remote; as procatarctic causes of a disease, in distinction from immediate or exciting causes. Thus heat may be the procatarctic and extreme fatigue the immediate or exciting cause of a fever.

Procatarxis

PROCATARX'IS, noun [Gr. supra.]

The predisposing cause of a disease.

Procede

PROCE'DE, verb intransitive [Latin procedo; pro, forward, and cedo, to move. the more correct orthography is procede in analogy with precede, concede, recede, procedure.]

1. To move, pass or go forward from one place to another; applied to persons or things. A man proceeds on his journey; a ship proceeds on her voyage.

This word thus used implies that the motion, journey or voyage had been previously commenced, and to proceed is then to renew or continue the motion or progress.

2. To pass from one point, stage or topic to another. The preacher proceeds from one division of his subject, and the advocate from one argument, to another.

3. To issue or come as from a course or fountain. Light proceeds from the sun; vice proceeds from a depraved heart; virtuous affections proceed from God.

4. To come from a person or place. Christ says, 'I proceeded forth and came from God.' John 8:1.

5. To prosecute any design.

He that proceeds on other principles in his inquiry into any sciences, posts himself in a party.

6. To be transacted or carried on.

He will, after his sour fashion, tell you,

What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.

[Not now in use.]

7. To make progress; to advance.

8. To begin and carry on a series of actions or measures. The attorney was at a loss in what manner to proceed against the offender. In this sense, the word is often followed by against.

9. To transact; to act; to carry on methodically.

From them I will not hide

My judgments, how with mankind I proceed.

10. To have a course.

This rule only proceeds and takes place, when a person cannot of common law condemn another by his sentence.

11. To issue; to be produced or propagated.

From my loins thou shalt proceed.

12. To be produced by an effectual cause. All created things proceed from God.

Procedure

PROCE'DURE, noun The act of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; series of actions; as the procedure of the soul in certain actions. But it is more generally applied to persons; as, this is a strange procedure in a public body. The motions of physical causes are more generally denominated operations.

1. Manner of proceeding; management; conduct.

2. That which proceeds from something; produce. [Not in use.]

Proceed

PROCEE'D

PROCEE'DER, noun One who goes forward, or who makes a progress.

Proceeder

PROCEE'DER, n. One who goes forward, or who makes a progress.

Proceeding

PROCEE'DING, participle present tense Moving forward; passing on; issuing; transacting; carrying on.

PROCEE'DING, noun Process or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in business; transaction; in the plural, a course of measures or conduct; course of dealing with others. We speak of a legal or an illegal proceeding a cautious proceeding a violent proceeding In the plural, the proceedings of the legislature have been wise and salutary. It is our duty to acquiesce cheerfully in all God's proceedings towards.

1. In law, the course of steps or measures in the prosecution of an action is denominated proceedings. [See Process.]

Proceeds

PROCEE'DS, noun plural Issue; rent; produce; as the proceeds of an estate.

1. In commerce, the sum, amount or value of goods sold or converted into money. The consignee was directed to sell the cargo and vest the proceeds in coffee. The proceeds of the goods sold amounted to little more than the prime cost and charges.

Proceleusmatic

PROCELEUSMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. mandate, incitement.]

Inciting; animating; encouraging. This epithet is given to a metrical foot in poetry, consisting of four short syllables.

Proception

PROCEP'TION, noun Preoccupation. [Ill formed and not in use.]

Procerity

PROCER'ITY, noun [Latin proceritas, from procerus, tall.]

Tallness; highth of stature. [Little used.]

Process

PROC'ESS, noun [Latin processus, from procedo. See Proceed.]

1. A proceeding or moving forward; progressive course; tendency; as the process of man's desire.

2. Proceedings; gradual progress; course; as the process of a war.

3. Operations; experiment; series of actions or experiments; as a chimical process

4. Series of motions or changes in growth, decay, etc. in physical bodies; as the process of vegetation or of mineralization; the process of decomposition.

5. Course; continual flux or passage; as the process of time.

6. Methodical management; series of measures or proceedings.

The process of the great day--is described by our Savior.

7. In law, the whole course of proceedings, in a cause, real or personal, civil or criminal, from the original writ to the end of the suit. Original process is the means taken to compel the defendant to appear in court. Mesne process is that which issues, pending the suit, upon some collateral or interlocutory matter. Final process is the process of execution.

8. In anatomy, any protuberance, eminence or projecting part of a bone.

Procession

PROCES'SION, noun [Latin processio. See Proceed.]

1. The act of proceeding or issuing.

2. A train of persons walking, or riding on horseback or in vehicles, in a formal march, or moving with ceremonious solemnity; as a procession of clergy and people in the Romish church; a triumphal procession; a funeral procession

Him all his train

Follow'd in bright procession

Processional

PROCES'SIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.

PROCES'SIONAL, noun A book relating to processions of the Romish church.

Processionary

PROCES'SIONARY, adjective Consisting in procession; as processionary service.

Prochein

PROCHEIN, adjective pro'shen. [Latin proximus.] Next; nearest; used in the law phrase, prochein amy, the next friend, any person who undertakes to assist an infant or minor in prosecuting his rights.

Prochronism

PRO'CHRONISM, noun [Gr. to precede in time, before, and time.]

An antedating; the dating of an event before the time it happened; hence, an error in chronology.

Procidence

PRO'CIDENCE, noun [Latin procidentia; procido, to fall down.]

A falling down; a prolapsus; as of the intestinum rectum.

Prociduous

PROCID'UOUS, adjective That falls from its place.

Procinct

PROCINCT', noun [Latin procinctus; procingo, to prepare, that is, to gird.] Complete preparation for action. [Little used.]

Proclaim

PROCLA'IM, verb transitive [Latin proclamo; pro and clamo, to cry out. See Claim.]

1. To promulgate; to announce; to publish; as, to proclaim a fast; to proclaim a feast. Leviticus 23:2. 1 Kings 21:9.

He hath sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives. Isaiah 61:1.

2. To denounce; to give official notice of. Heralds were formerly employed to proclaim war.

3. To declare with honor; as, to proclaim the name of the Lord, that is, to declare his perfections. Exodus 33:19.

4. To utter openly; to make public. Some profligate wretches openly proclaim their atheism.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness. Proverbs 20:6.

5. To outlaw by public denunciation.

I heard myself proclaimed.

Proclaimed

PROCLA'IMED, participle passive Published officially; promulgated; made publicly known.

Proclaimer

PROCLA'IMER, noun One who publishes by authority; one that announces or makes publicly known.

Proclaiming

PROCLA'IMING, participle present tense Publishing officially; denouncing; promulgating; making publicly known.

Proclamation

PROCLAMA'TION, noun [Latin proclamatio, from proclamo.]

1. Publication by authority; official notice given to the public.

King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah.

1 Kings 15:22.

2. In England, a declaration of the king's will, openly published.

Proclamations are a branch of the king's prerogative, and are binding on the subject.

3. The declaration of any supreme magistrate publicly made known; as the proclamation of the governor appointing a day of thanksgiving.

4. The paper containing an official notice to a people. The sheriff receives and distributes the governor's proclamations.

Proclive

PROCLI'VE, adjective Proclivous. [Not used.]

Proclivity

PROCLIV'ITY, noun [Latin proclivitas, proclivis; pro and clivus, a cliff.]

1. Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency.

The sensitive appetite may engender a proclivity to steal, but not a necessity to steal.

2. Readiness; facility of learning.

He had such a dexterous proclivity that his teachers were fain to restrain his forwardness.

Proclivous

PROCLI'VOUS, adjective [Latin proclivus, proclivis, supra.]

Inclined; tending by nature.

Proconsul

PROCON'SUL, noun [Latin pro, for, and consul.]

A Roman magistrate sent to govern a province with consular authority. The proconsuls were appointed from the body of the senate, and their authority expired at the end of a year from their appointment.

Proconsular

PROCON'SULAR, adjective Pertaining to a proconsul; as proconsular powers.

1. Under the government of a proconsul; as a proconsular province.

Proconsulship

PROCON'SULSHIP, noun The office of a proconsul, or the term of his office.

Procrastinate

PROCRAS'TINATE, verb transitive [Latin procrastinor; pro and crastinus; cras, to-morrow.] To put off from day to day; to delay; to defer to a future time; as, to procrastinate repentance.

PROCRAS'TINATE, verb intransitive To delay; to be dilatory.

I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago.

Procrastinated

PROCRAS'TINATED, participle passive Delayed; deferred.

Procrastinating

PROCRAS'TINATING, participle present tense Delaying; putting off to a future time.

Procrastination

PROCRASTINA'TION, noun [Latin procrastinatio.]

A putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.

Procrastinator

PROCRAS'TINATOR, noun One that defers the performance of any thing to a future time.

Procreant

PRO'CREANT, adjective [Latin procreans. See Procreate.]

Generating; producing; productive; fruitful.

Procreate

PRO'CREATE, verb transitive [Latin procreo; pro and creo, to create.]

1. To beget; to generate and produce; to engender; used properly of animals.

2. To produce; used of plants, but hardly allowable.

Procreated

PRO'CREATED, participle passive Begotten; generated.

Procreating

PRO'CREATING, participle present tense Begetting; generating; as young.

Procreation

PROCREA'TION, noun [Latin procreatio.]

The act of begetting; generation and production of young.

Procreative

PRO'CREATIVE, adjective Generative; having the power to beget.

Procreativeness

PRO'CREATIVENESS, noun The power of generating.

Procreator

PRO'CREATOR, noun One that begets; a generator; a father or sire.

Proctor

PROC'TOR, noun [contracted from Latin procurator, from procuro; pro and curo.]

1. In a general sense, one who is employed to manage the affairs of another.

2. Appropriately, a person employed to manage another's cause in a court of civil or ecclesiastical law, as in the court of admiralty, or in a spiritual court.

3. The magistrate of a university.

PROC'TOR, verb intransitive To manage; a cant word.

Proctorage

PROC'TORAGE, noun Management; in contempt.

Proctorical

PROCTOR'ICAL, adjective Belonging to the academical proctor; magisterial.

Proctorship

PROC'TORSHIP, noun The office or dignity of the proctor of a university.

Procumbent

PROCUM'BENT, adjective [Latin procumbens, procumbo; pro and cubo, to lie down.] Lying down or on the face; prone.

1. In botany, trailing; prostrate; unable to support itself, and therefore lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; as a procumbent stem.

Procurable

PROCU'RABLE, adjective [from procure.] That may be procured; obtainable.

Procuracy

PRO'CURACY, noun [from Latin procuro.] The management of any thing. [Not used.]

Procuration

PRO'CURA'TION, noun [Latin procuratio. See Procure.]

1. The act of procuring. [Procurement is generally used.]

2. The management of another's affairs.

3. The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another.

4. A sum of money paid to the bishop or archdeacon by incumbents, on account of visitations; called also proxy.

Procurator

PROC'URATOR, noun The manager of another's affairs. [See Proctor.]

Procuratorial

PROCURATO'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to a procurator or proctor; made by a proctor.

Procuratorship

PROCURA'TORSHIP, noun The office of a procurator.

Procuratory

PROCU'RATORY, adjective Tending to procuration.

Procure

PROCU'RE, verb transitive [Latin procuro; pro and curo, to take care.]

1. To get; to gain; to obtain; as by request, loan, effort, labor or purchase. We procure favors by request; we procure money by borrowing; we procure food by cultivating the earth; offices are procured by solicitation or favor; we procure titles to estate by purchase. It is used of things of temporary possession more generally than acquire. We do not say, we acquired favor, we acquired money by borrowing but we procured.

2. To persuade; to prevail on.

What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither? [Unusual.]

3. To cause; to bring about; to effect; to contrive and effect.

Proceed, Salinus, to procure my fall.

4. To cause to come on; to bring on.

We no other pains endure

Than those that we ourselves procure

5. To draw to; to attract; to gain. Modesty procures love and respect.

PROCU'RE, verb intransitive To pimp.

Procured

PROCU'RED, participle passive Obtained, caused to be done; effected; brought on.

Procurement

PROCU'REMENT, noun The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment.

1. A causing to be effected.

They think it done

By her procurement

Procurer

PROCU'RER, noun One that procures or obtains; that which brings on or causes to be done.

1. A pimp; a pander.

Procuress

PROCU'RESS, noun A bawd.

Procuring

PROCU'RING, participle present tense Getting; gaining; obtaining.

1. Causing to come or to be done.

2. adjective That causes to come; bringing on.

Sin is the procuring cause of all our woes.

Prodigal

PROD'IGAL, adjective [Latin produgus, from prodigo, to drive forth, to lavish.]

1. Given to extravagant expenditures; expending money or other things without necessity; profuse, lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as a prodigal man; the prodigal son. A man may be prodigal of his strength, of his health, of his life or blood, as well as of his money.

2. Profuse, lavish; expended to excess or without necessity; as prodigal expenses.

3. Very liberal; profuse. Nature is prodigal of her bounties.

PROD'IGAL, noun One that expends money extravagantly or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish; a waster; a spendthrift.

Prodigality

PRODIGAL'ITY, noun

1. Extravagance in the expenditure of what one possesses, particularly of money; profusion; waste; excessive liberality. It is opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.

By the Roman law a man of notorious prodigality was treated as non compos.

The most severe censor cannot but be pleased with the prodigality of his wit.

2. Profuse liberality.

Prodigalize

PROD'IGALIZE, verb intransitive To be extravagant in expenditures. [Not used.]

Prodigally

PROD'IGALLY, adverb With profusion of expenses; extravagantly; lavishly; wastefully; as an estate prodigally dissipated.

1. With liberal abundance; profusely.

Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows,

Out paths with flow'rs she prodigally strows.

Prodigious

PRODIG'IOUS, adjective [Latin prodigiosus. See Prodigy.]

1. Very great; huge; enormous in size, quantity, extent, etc.; as a mountain of prodigious size or altitude; a prodigious mass or quantity of water; an ocean or plain of prodigious extent. Hence,

2. Wonderful; astonishing; such as may seem a prodigy; monstrous; portentous.

It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky.

Prodigious to relate.

Prodigiously

PRODIG'IOUSLY, adverb Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as a number prodigiously great.

1. Very much; extremely; in familiar language. He was prodigiously pleased.

Prodigiousness

PRODIG'IOUSNESS, noun Enormousness of size; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment.

Prodigy

PROD'IGY, noun [Latin prodigium, from prodigo, to shoot out, drive out, properly to spread to a great extent.

1. Any thing out of the ordinary process of nature, as so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; as a prodigy of learning.

2. Something extraordinary from which omens are drawn; portent. Thus eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.

3. A monster; an animal or other production out of the ordinary course of nature.

Prodition

PRODI'TION, noun [Latin proditio, form prodo, to betray; supposed to be compounded of pro and do, to give.] Treachery; treason.

Proditor

PROD'ITOR, noun [Latin] A traitor. [Not in use.]

Proditorious

PRODITO'RIOUS, adjective Treacherous; perfidious; traitorous. [Not in use.]

1. Apt to make discoveries or disclosures. [Not in use.]

Proditory

PROD'ITORY, adjective Treacherous; perfidious.

Prodrome

PRO'DROME, noun [Gr. to run.] A forerunner. [Not in use.]

Produce

PRODU'CE, verb transitive [Latin produco; pro and duco, to lead or draw.]

1. To bring forward; to bring or offer to view or notice; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

Produce your cause. Isaiah 41:21.

2. To exhibit to the public.

Your parents did not produce you

much into the world.

3. To bring forth; to bear; as plants or the soil. Trees produce fruit; the earth produces trees and grass; wheat produces an abundance of food.

4. To bear; to generate and bring forth; as young. The seas produce fish in abundance.

They--

Produce prodigious births of body or mind.

5. To cause; to effect; to bring into existence. Small causes sometimes produce great effects. The clouds produce rain. The painter produces a picture or a landscape. The sculptor produces a statue. Vice produces misery.

6. To raise; to bring into being. The farmer produces grain enough for his family.

7. To make; to bring into being or form. The manufacturer produces excellent wares.

8. To yield or furnish. Money produces interest; capital produces profit. The commerce of the country produces a revenue to government.

9. In general, to bring into existence or into view.

10. To draw out in length; to extend; as a line produced from A to B.

PROD'UCE, noun That which is produced, brought forth or yielded; product; as the produce of a farm; the produce of trees; the produce of a country; the produce of a manufacture; the produce of the sea; the produce of a tax; the produce of a mine. But when we speak of something formed by an individual artisan or genius, we call it a production.

Produced

PRODU'CED, participle passive Brought into life, being or view; yielded.

Producement

PRODU'CEMENT, noun Production. [Not used.]

Producent

PRODU'CENT, noun One that exhibits or offers to view or notice. [Not much used.]

Producer

PRODU'CER, noun One that generates; one that produces.

Producibility

PRODUCIBIL'ITY, noun The power or producing. [Not used.]

Producible

PRODU'CIBLE, adjective

1. That may be brought into being; that may be generated or made; as producible salts.

2. That may be brought into view or notice; that may be exhibited.

Producibleness

PRODU'CIBLENESS, noun The state or quality of being producible; as the producibleness of salts.

Producing

PRODU'CING, participle present tense Generating; bringing into existence or notice.

Product

PROD'UCT, noun [Latin productus, from produco.]

1. That which is produced by nature, as fruits, grain, metals; as the product of land; the products of the season.

2. That which is formed or produced by labor or by mental application; as the products of manufacturers, of commerce or of art; the products of great and wise men. In the latter sense, production is now generally used.

In general, products comprehends whatever is produced or made; as when we speak of the products of a country exported.

The product of the impost and excise.

3. Effect; result; something consequential.

These are the product

Of those ill mated marriages.

4. In arithmetic, the amount of two or more numbers multiplied. Thus 5x7=35, the product product results from multiplication, as sum does from addition.

5. In geometry, the factum of two or more lines.