Productile – Promissory

Productile

PRODUC'TILE, adjective That may be extended in length.

Production

PRODUC'TION, noun [Latin productio.]

1. The act or process of producing, bringing forth or exhibiting to view.

2. That which is produced or made; as the productions of the earth, comprehending all vegetables and fruits; the productions of art, as manufactures of every kind, paintings, sculpture, etc.; the productions of intellect or genius, as poems and prose compositions.

Productive

PRODUC'TIVE, adjective

1. Having the power of producing; as, productive labor is that which increases the number or amount of products; opposed to unproductive labor. The labor of the farmer and mechanic is productive; the labor of officers and professional men is unproductive to the state. A tree which bears fruit, and the land which bears grass or grain, is productive

2. Fertile; producing good crops. We often denote by this word that land or plants yield large products.

3. Producing; bringing into being; causing to exist; efficient; as an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.

This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit.

And kindle with thy own productive fire.

Productiveness

PRODUC'TIVENESS, noun The quality of being productive; as the productiveness of land or labor.

Proem

PRO'EM, noun [Latin proemium; Gr. before, and way.] Preface; introduction; preliminary observations to a book or writing.

PRO'EM, verb transitive To preface. [Not used.]

Proemial

PROE'MIAL, adjective Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.

Proemptosis

PROEMP'TOSIS, noun [Gr. to fall before.] In chronology, the lunar equation or addition of a day, necessary to prevent the new moon from happening a day too soon.

Profanation

PROFANA'TION, noun [Latin profano. See Profane.]

1. The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; as the profanation of the sabbath by sports, amusements or unnecessary labor; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God by swearing, jesting, etc.

2. The act of treating with abuse or disrespect.

'Twere profanation of our joys

To tell the laity our love.

Profane

PROFA'NE, adjective [Latin profanus; pro and fanum, a temple.]

1. Irreverent to any thing sacred; applied to persons. A man is profane when he takes the name of God in vain, or treats sacred things with abuse and irreverence.

2. Irreverent; proceeding from a contempt of sacred things, or implying it; as profane words or language; profane swearing.

3. Not sacred; secular; relating to secular things; as profane history.

4. Polluted; not pure.

Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.

5. Not purified or holy; allowed for common use; as a profane place. Ezekiel 42:20. and 48.

6. Obscene; heathenish; tending to bring reproach on religion; as profane fables. 1 Timothy 4:7.

Profane is used chiefly in Scripture in opposition to holy, or qualified ceremonially for sacred services.

PROFA'NE, verb transitive To violate any thing sacred, or treat it with abuse, irreverence, obloquy or contempt; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the sabbath; to profane the Scriptures or the ordinances of God.

1. To pollute; to defile; to apply to temporal uses; to use as base or common. Ezekiel 24:21.

2. To violate. Malachi 2:11.

3. To pollute; to debase.Leviticus 21:4.

4. To put to a wrong use.

Profaned

PROFA'NED, participle passive Violated; treated with irreverence or abuse; applied to common uses; polluted.

Profanely

PROFA'NELY, adverb With irreverence to sacred things or names.

The character of God profanely impeached.

1. With abuse or contempt for any thing venerable.

That proud scholar--speaks of Homer too profanely

Profaneness

PROFA'NENESS, noun Irreverence of sacred things; particularly, the use of language which implies irreverence towards God; the taking of God's name in vain.

Profaneness in men is vulgar and odious; in females, is shocking and detestable.

Profaner

PROFA'NER, noun One who by words or actions, treats sacred things with irreverence; one who uses profane language.

1. A polluter; a defiler; as a profaner of the temple.

Profaning

PROFA'NING, participle present tense Violating; treating with irreverence; polluting.

Profanity

PROFAN'ITY, noun Profaneness, which see.

In a revel of debauchery, amid the brisk interchange of profanity and folly, religion might appear a dumb, unsocial intruder.

Profection

PROFEC'TION, noun [Latin profectio.] A going forward; advance; progression. [Not in use.]

Profert

PRO'FERT, noun [Latin 3d.person of profero.] In law, the exhibition of a record or paper in open court.

Profess

PROFESS', verb transitive [Latin professus, profiteor; pro and fateor.]

1. To make open declaration of; to avow or acknowledge.

Let no man who professes himself a christian, keep so heathenish a family as not to see God by daily worshipped in it.

They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him. Titus 1:16.

2. To declare in strong terms.

Then will I profess to them, I never knew you. Matthew 7:23.

3. To make a show of any sentiments by loud declaration.

To your professing bosoms I commit him.

4. To declare publicly one's skill in any art or science, for inviting employment; as, to profess one's self a physician; he professes surgery.

PROFESS', verb intransitive To declare friendship. [Not in use.]

Professed

PROFESS'ED

PROFESS'EDLY, adverb By profession; by open declaration or avowal.

I could not grant too much to men--professedly my subjects.

England I traveled over, professedly searching all places as I passed along.

Professedly

PROFESS'EDLY, adv. By profession; by open declaration or avowal. I could not grant too much to men--professedly my subjects. England I traveled over, professedly searching all places as I passed along.

Professing

PROFESS'ING, participle present tense Openly declaring; avowing; acknowledging.

Profession

PROFES'SION, noun [Latin professio.]

1. Open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment of one's sentiments or belief; as professions of friendship or sincerity; a profession of faith or religion.

The professions of princes, when a crown is the bait, are a slender security.

The Indians quickly perceive the coincidence or the contradiction between professions and conduct, and their confidence or distrust follows of course.

2. The business which one professes to understand and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as the learned professions. We speak of the profession of a clergyman, of a lawyer, and of a physician or surgeon; the profession of lecturer on chimistry or mineralogy. But the word is not applied to an occupation merely mechanical.

3. The collective body of persons engaged in a calling. We speak of practices honorable or disgraceful to a profession

4. Among the Romanists, the entering into a religious order, by which a person offers himself to God by a vow of inviolable obedience, chastity and poverty.

Professional

PROFES'SIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a profession or to a calling; as professional studies, pursuits, duties, engagements; professional character or skill.

Professionally

PROFES'SIONALLY, adverb By profession or declaration. He is professionally a friend to religion.

1. By calling; as one employed professionally

Professor

PROFESS'OR, noun [Latin] One who makes open declaration of his sentiments or opinions; particularly, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.

1. One that publicly teaches any science or branch of learning; particularly, an officer in a university, college or other seminary, whose business is to read lectures or instruct students in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology or mathematics.

Professorial

PROFESSO'RIAL, adjective [Latin professorius.] Pertaining to a professor; as the professorial chair.

Professorship

PROFESS'ORSHIP, noun The office of a professor or public teacher of the sciences.

Professory

PROFESS'ORY, adjective Pertaining to a professor.

Profest

PROFEST', participle passive Openly declared, avowed or acknowledged; as a professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed christian; a professed atheist.

Proffer

PROF'FER, verb transitive [Latin profero; pro and fero, to bear.]

1. To offer for acceptance; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.

2. To essay or attempt of one's own accord.

So hardy as to proffer or accept

Alone the dreadful voyage.

PROF'FER, noun An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; as proffers of peace or friendship.

He made a proffer to lay down his commission of command in the army.

1. Essay; attempt.

Proffered

PROF'FERED, participle passive Offered for acceptance.

Profferer

PROF'FERER, noun One who offers any thing for acceptance.

Proffering

PROF'FERING, participle present tense Offering for acceptance.

Proficience

PROFI'CIENCE

PROFI'CIENCY, noun [from Latin proficiens, from proficio, to advance forward; pro and facio, to make.] Advance in the acquisition of any art, science or knowledge; improvement; progression in knowledge. Students are examined that they may manifest their proficiency in their studies or in knowledge.

Proficiency

PROFI'CIENCY, n. [from L. proficiens, from proficio, to advance forward; pro and facio, to make.] Advance in the acquisition of any art, science or knowledge; improvement; progression in knowledge. Students are examined that they may manifest their proficiency in their studies or in knowledge.

Proficient

PROFI'CIENT, noun One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science or branch of learning; as a proficient in a trade or occupation; a proficient in mathematics, in anatomy, in music, etc.

Proficuous

PROFIC'UOUS, adjective [Latin proficuus, proficio, supra.]

Profitable; advantageous; useful. [Little used.]

Profile

PROFILE, noun pro'fil. [Latin filum, a thread or line.]

1. Primarily, an outline of contour; hence, in sculpture and painting, a head or portrait represented sidewise or in a side view; the side face or half face; as, to draw or appear in profile; the profile of Pope or Addison.

2. In architecture, the contour or outline of a figure, building or member; also, the draught of a building, representing it as if cut down perpendicularly from the roof to the foundation.

PRO'FILE, verb transitive To draw the outline of a head sidewise; to draw in profile; as a building.

Profiled

PRO'FILED, participle passive Drawn so as to present a side view.

Profiling

PRO'FILING, participle present tense Drawing a portrait so as to represent a side view; drawing an outline.

Profit

PROF'IT, noun [Latin profectus, proficio, to profit literally to proceed forward, to advance; pro and facio. The primary sense of facio is to urge or drive.

1. In commerce, the advance in the price of goods sold beyond the cost of purchase. Net profit is the gain made by selling goods at an advanced price or a price beyond what they had cost the seller, and beyond all costs and charges. The profit of the farmer and the manufacturer is the gain made by the sale of produce or manufactures, after deducting the value of the labor, materials, rents and all expenses, together with the interest of the capital employed, whether land, machinery, buildings, instruments or money.

Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.

2. Any gain or pecuniary advantage; as an office of profit or honor.

3. Any advantage; any accession of good from labor or exertion; an extensive signification, comprehending the acquisition of any thing valuable, corporeal or intellectual, temporal or spiritual. A person may derive profit from exercise, amusements, reading, study, meditation, social intercourse, religious instruction, etc. Every improvement or advance in knowledge is profit to a wise man.

PROF'IT, verb transitive

1. To benefit; to advantage; applied to one's self, to derive some pecuniary interest or some accession of good from any thing; as, to profit one's self by a commercial undertaking, or by reading or instruction. In this sense, the verb is generally used intransitively. Applied to others, to communicate good to; to advance the interest of.

Brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you? 1 Corinthians 14:6.

Whereto might the strength of their hands profit me? Job 30:2.

2. To improve; to advance.

It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.

PROF'IT, verb intransitive To gain advantage in percuniary interest; as, to profit by trade or manufactures.

1. To make improvement; to improve; to grow wiser or better; to advance in any thing useful; as, to profit by reading or by experience.

She has profited by your counsel.

2. To be of use or advantage; to bring good to.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath. Proverbs 11:4.

Profitable

PROF'ITABLE, adjective Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; as a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.

1. Useful; advantageous.

What was so profitable to the empire, became fatal to the emperor.

Profitableness

PROF'ITABLENESS, noun Gainfulness; as the profitableness of trade.

1. Usefulness; advantageousness.

Profitably

PROF'ITABLY, adverb With gain; gainfully. Our ships are profitably employed.

1. Usefully; advantageously; with improvement. Our time may be profitably occupied in reading.

Profited

PROF'ITED, participle passive Benefited; advanced in interest or happiness; improved.

What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Matthew 16:26.

Profiting

PROF'ITING, participle present tense Gaining interest or advantage; improving.

PROF'ITING, noun Gain; advantage; improvement.

That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Timothy 4:15.

Profitless

PROF'ITLESS, adjective Void of profit, gain or advantage.

Profligacy

PROF'LIGACY, noun [See Profligate.] A profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice.

Profligate

PROF'LIGATE, adjective [Latin profligatus, profligo, to rout, to ruin; pro and fligo, to drive or dash. The word then signifies dashed, broken or ruined in morals. See Flog and Afflict.]

Abandoned to vice; lost to principle, virtue or decency; extremely vicious; shameless in wickedness; as a profligate man or wretch.

Next age will see

A race more profligate than we.

Made prostitute and profligate the muse,

Debas'd to each obscene and impious use.

PROF'LIGATE, noun An abandoned man; a wretch who has lost all regard to good principles, virtue or decency.

How could such a profligate as Antony, or a boy of eighteen like Octavius, ever dare to dream of giving law to such an empire?

PROF'LIGATE, verb transitive To drive away; a Latin signification. [Not used.]

1. To overcome. [Not used.]

Profligately

PROF'LIGATELY, adverb Without principle or shame.

1. In a course of extreme viciousness; as, to spend life profligately

Profligateness

PROF'LIGATENESS, noun The quality or state of being lost to virtue and decency.

1. An abandoned course of life; extreme viciousness; profligacy.

Profligation

PROFLIGA'TION, noun Defeat; rout. [Not used.]

Profluence

PROF'LUENCE, noun [Latin profluens, profluo; pro and fluo, to flow.]

A progress or course. [Not used.]

Profluent

PROF'LUENT, adjective Flowing forward; as a profluent stream.

Profound

PROFOUND', adjective [Latin profundus; pro and fundus, bottom. See Found.]

1. Deep; descending or being far below the surface, or far below the adjacent places; as a gulf profound

2. Intellectually deep; that enters deeply into subjects; not superficial or obvious to the mind; as a profound investigation; profound reasoning; a profound treatise.

3. Humble; very lowly; submissive; as a profound reverence for the Supreme Being.

4. Penetrating deeply into science or any branch of learning; as a profound scholar; a profound mathematician; a profound historian.

5. Deep in skill or contrivance.

The revolters are profound to make slaughter. Hosea 5.

6. Having hidden qualities.

Upon the corner of the moon

There hangs a vap'rous drop profound

PROFOUND', noun The deep; the sea; the ocean; as the vast profound

1. The abyss.

I travel this profound

PROFOUND', verb intransitive To dive; to penetrate. [Not in use.]

Profoundly

PROFOUND'LY, adverb Deeply; with deep concern.

Why sigh you so profoundly?

1. With deep penetration into science or learning; with deep knowledge or insight; as profoundly wise; profoundly skilled in music or painting.

Profoundness

PROFOUND'NESS, noun Depth of place.

1. Depth of knowledge or of science.

Profundity

PROFUND'ITY, noun [Latin profundus.] Depth of place, knowledge or of science.

Profuse

PROFU'SE, adjective [Latin profusus, profundo, to pour out; pro and fundo.]

1. Lavish; liberal to excess; prodigal; as a profuse government; a profuse administration. Henry the eighth, a profuse king, dissipated the treasures which the parsimony of his father had amassed. A man's friends are generally too profuse of praise, and his enemies too sparing.

2. Extravagant; lavish; as profuse expenditures.

3. Overabounding; exuberant.

On a green shady bank, profuse of flowers--

O liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright,

Profuse of bliss--

Profuse ornament in painting, architecture or gardening, as well as in dress or in language, shows a mean or corrupted taste.

PROFU'SE, verb transitive s as z. To pour out. [Little used.]

1. To squander. [Little used.]

Profusely

PROFU'SELY, adverb Lavishly; prodigally; as an income profusely expended.

1. With exuberance; with rich abundance. The earth is profusely adorned with flowers; ornaments may be too profusely scattered over a building.

Profuseness

PROFU'SENESS, noun Lavishness; prodigality; extravagant expenditures.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness

1. Great abundance; profusion; as profuseness of ornaments.

Profusion

PROFU'SION, s. s as z. [Latin profusio.]

1. Lavishness; prodigality; extravagance of expenditures; as, to waste an estate by profusion

What meant thy pompous progress through the empire,

Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles?

2. Lavish effusion.

He was desirous to avoid not only profusion but the least effusion of christian blood.

3. Rich abundance; exuberant plenty. The table contained a profusion of dainties. Our country has a profusion of food for man and beast.

The raptur'd eye

The fair profusion yellow autumn, spies.

Prog

PROG, verb intransitive [Latin proco, procor.]

1. To shift meanly for provisions; to wander about and seek provisions where they are to be found; to live by beggarly tricks. [A low word.]

You are the lion; I have been endeavoring to prog for you.

PROG, noun Victuals or provisions sought by begging or found by wandering about.

1. Victuals of any kind. [A low word.]

PROG, noun One that seeks his victuals by wandering and begging.

Progenerate

PROGEN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin progenero.] To beget. [Not in use.]

Progeneration

PROGENERA'TION, noun The act of begetting; propagation. [Not used.]

Progenitor

PROGEN'ITOR, noun [Latin from progigno; pro and gigno, to beget.]

An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.

Adam was the progenitor of the human race.

Progeniture

PROGEN'ITURE, noun A begetting or birth. [Little used.]

Progeny

PROG'ENY, noun [Latin progenies, from progignor.] Offspring; race; children; descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; as the progeny of a king; the progeny of Adam; the progeny of beasts or fowls; a word of general application.

Prognosis

PROGNO'SIS, noun [Gr. to know before.] In medicine, the art of foretelling the event of a disease; the judgment of the event of a disease by particular symptoms.

Prognostic

PROGNOS'TIC, adjective Foreshowing; indicating something future by signs or symptoms; as the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

PROGNOS'TIC, noun In medicine, the judgment formed concerning the event of a disease by means of the symptoms.

1. Something which foreshows; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.

In medicine, a sign or symptom indicating the event of a disease. The appearance of the tongue--is of considerable importance as a prognostic

1. A foretelling; prediction.

Prognosticable

PROGNOS'TICABLE, adjective That may be foreknown or foretold.

Prognosticate

PROGNOS'TICATE, verb transitive [from prognostic.]

1. To foreshow; to indicate a future event by present signs. A clear sky at sunset prognosticates a fair day.

2. To foretell by means of present signs; to predict.

I neither will nor can prognosticate

To the young gaping heir his father's fate.

Prognosticated

PROGNOS'TICATED, participle passive Foreshown; foretold.

Prognosticating

PROGNOS'TICATING, participle present tense Foreshowing; foretelling.

Prognostication

PROGNOSTICA'TION, noun The act of foreshowing a future event by present signs.

1. The act of foretelling an event by present signs.

2. A foretoken; previous sign.

Prognosticator

PROGNOS'TICATOR, noun A foreknower or foreteller of a future event by present signs.

Programma

PROGRAM'MA, noun [Gr. to write previously; to write.]

1. Anciently, a letter sealed with the king's seal.

2. In a university, a billet or advertisement to invite persons to an oration.

3. A proclamation or edict posted in a public place.

4. That which is written before something else; a preface.

Progress

PROG'RESS, noun [Latin progressus, progedior; pro and gradior, to step or go. See Grade and Degree.]

1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward. A man makes a slow progress or a rapid progress on a journey; a ship makes slow progress against the tide. He watched the progress of the army on its march, or the progress of a star or comet.

2. A moving forward in growth; increase; as the progress of a plant or animal.

3. Advance in business of any kind; as the progress of a negotiation; the progress of arts.

4. Advance in knowledge; intellectual or moral improvement; proficiency. The student is commended for this progress in learning; the christian for his progress in virtue and piety.

5. Removal; passage from place to place.

From Egypt arts their progress made to Greece.

6. A journey of state; a circuit.

PROGRESS', verb intransitive To move forward in space; to pass; to proceed.

Let me wipe off this honorable dew

That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks.

--Although the popular blast

Hath rear'd thy name up to bestride a cloud,

Or progress in the chariot of the sun.

1. To proceed; to continue onward in course.

After the war had progressed for some time.

2. To advance; to make improvement.

Progression

PROGRES'SION, noun [Latin progressio, progredior.]

1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onwards.

2. Intellectual advance; as the progression of thought.

3. Course; passage.

4. In mathematics, regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical or geometrical. Continued arithmetical proportion, is when the terms increase or decrease by equal differences. Thus,

2. 4. 6. 8. 10.

. 8. 6. 4. 2. by the difference 2.

Geometrical proportion or progression is when the terms increase or decrease by equal ratios. Thus,

2. 4. 8. 16. 32. 64.

64. 32. 16. 8. 4. 2. by a continual multiplication or division by 2.

Progressional

PROGRES'SIONAL, adjective That advances; that is in a state of advance.

Progressive

PROGRESS'IVE, adjective Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; as progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.

1. Improving. The arts are in a progressive state.

Progressively

PROGRESS'IVELY, adverb By motion onward; by regular advances.

Progressiveness

PROGRESS'IVENESS, noun The state of moving forward; an advancing; state of improvement; as the progressiveness of science, arts or taste.

Prohibit

PROHIB'IT, verb transitive [Latin prohibeo; pro and habeo, to hold.]

1. To forbid; to interdict by authority; applicable to persons or things, but implying authority or right. God prohibited Adam to eat of the fruit of a certain tree. The moral law prohibits what is wrong and commands what is right. We prohibit a person to do a thing, and we prohibit the thing to be done.

2. To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.

Gates of burning adamant,

Barr'd over us, prohibit all egress.

Prohibited

PROHIB'ITED, participle passive Forbid; interdicted; hindered.

Prohibiter

PROHIB'ITER, noun One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.

Prohibiting

PROHIB'ITING, participle present tense Forbidding; interdicting; debarring.

Prohibition

PROHIBI'TION, noun [Latin prohibitio.]

1. The act of forbidding or interdicting; a declaration to hinder some action; interdict.

The law of God in the ten commandments consists mostly of prohibitions; 'thou shalt not do such a thing.'

2. In law, a writ of prohibition is a writ issuing from a superior tribunal, directed to the judges of an inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution of a suit. By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself.

Prohibitive

PROHIB'ITIVE

PROHIB'ITORY, adjective Forbidding; implying prohibition.

Prohibitory

PROHIB'ITORY, a. Forbidding; implying prohibition.

Proin

PROIN, verb transitive To lop; to trim; to prune. [See Prune.]

PROIN, verb intransitive To be employed in pruning.

Project

PROJECT', verb transitive [Latin projicio; pro, forward, and jacio, to throw.]

1. To throw out; to cast or shoot forward.

Th' ascending villas

PROJECT long shadows o'er the crystal tide.

2. To cast forward in the mind; to scheme; to contrive; to devise something to be done; as, to project a plan for paying off the national debt; to project an expedition to South America; to project peace or war.

3. To draw or exhibit, as the form of any thing; to delineate.

PROJECT', verb intransitive To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to jut; to be prominent; as, the cornice projects.

PROJ'ECT, noun A scheme; a design; something intended or devised; contrivance; as the project of a canal from the Hudson to the lakes; all our projects of happiness are liable to be frustrated.

1. An idle scheme; a design not practicable; as a man given to projects.

Projected

PROJECT'ED, participle passive Cast out or forward; schemed; devised; delineated.

Projectile

PROJECT'ILE, adjective Impelling forward; as a projectile force.

1. Given by impulse; impelled forward; as projectile motion.

PROJECT'ILE, noun A body projected, or impelled forward by force, particularly through the air.

1. Projectiles, in mechanical philosophy, is that part which treats of the motion of bodies thrown or driven by an impelling force from the surface of the earth, and affected by gravity and the resistance of the air.

Projecting

PROJECT'ING, participle present tense Throwing out or forward; shooting out; jutting; scheming; contriving.

Projection

PROJEC'TION, noun [Latin projectio.] The act of throwing or shooting forward.

1. A jutting out; extension beyond something else.

2. The act of scheming; plan; scheme; design of something to be executed.

3. Plan; delineation; the representation of something; as the projection of the sphere, is a representation of the circles on the surface of the sphere. There are three principal points of projection; the stereographic, in which the eye is supposed to be placed on the surface of the sphere; the orthographic, in which the eye is supposed to be at an infinite distance; and the gnomonic, in which the eye is placed in the center of the sphere.

In perspective, projection denotes the appearance or representation of an object on the perspective plane.

4. In alchimy, the casting of a certain powder, called powder of projection into a crucible or other vessel full of some prepared metal or other matter, which is to be thereby transmuted into gold.

Projectment

PROJECT'MENT, noun Design; contrivance. [Little used.]

Projector

PROJECT'OR, noun One who forms a scheme or design.

1. One who forms wild or impracticable schemes.

Projecture

PROJECT'URE, noun A jutting or standing out beyond the line or surface of something else.

Prolapse

PROLAPSE, noun prolaps'. [Latin prolapsus, prolabor.]

A falling down or falling out of some part of the body, as of the uterus or intestines.

PROLAPSE, verb intransitive prolaps'. To fall down or out; to project too much.

Prolapsion

PROLAP'SION

PROLAP'SUS, [ See Prolapse.]

Prolapsus

PROLAP'SUS, [ See Prolapse.]

Prolate

PROLA'TE, verb transitive [Latin prolatum, profero.]

To utter; to pronounce. [Not used.]

PRO'LATE, adjective [supra.] Extended beyond the line of an exact sphere. A prolate spheriod is produced by the revolution of a semi-ellipsis about its larger diameter.

Prolation

PROLA'TION, noun [Latin prolatio, from profero.]

Utterance; pronunciation. [Little used.]

1. Delay; act of deferring. [Not used.]

2. A method in music of determining the power of semibreves and minims.

Prolegomena

PROLEGOM'ENA, noun plural [Gr. to speak.] Preliminary observations; introductory remarks or discourses prefixed to a book or treatise.

Prolepsis

PROLEP'SIS

PROLEP'SY, noun [Gr. to take.]

1. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

2. An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the actual time; an anachronism.

Prolepsy

PROLEP'SY, n. [Gr. to take.] 1. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented.2. An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the actual time; an anachronism.

Proleptic

PROLEP'TIC

PROLEP'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation.

1. Previous; antecedent.

2. In medicine, anticipating the usual time; applied to a periodical disease, whose paroxysm returns at an earlier hour at every repetition.

Proleptical

PROLEP'TICAL, a. Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation. 1. Previous; antecedent.2. In medicine, anticipating the usual time; applied to a periodical disease, whose paroxysm returns at an earlier hour at every repetition.

Proleptically

PROLEP'TICALLY, adverb By way of anticipation.

Proletarian

PROLETA'RIAN, adjective [Latin proletarius, from proles, offspring.]vile; vulgar. [Not used.]

Proletary

PRO'LETARY, noun A common person. [Not used.]

Proliferous

PROLIF'EROUS, adjective [infra.] In botany, prolific; as a proliferous flower.

A proliferous stem is one which puts forth branches only from the center of the top, or which shoots out new branches from the summits of the former ones, as the pine and fir.

A proliferous umbel is a compound umbel which has the umbellicle subdivided.

Prolific

PROLIF'IC

PROLIF'ICACY, noun Fruitfulness; great productiveness.

Prolificacy

PROLIF'ICACY, n. Fruitfulness; great productiveness.

Prolifical

PROLIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin proles, offspring, and facio, to make.]

1. Producing young or fruit; fruitful; generative; productive; applied to animals and plants; as a prolific female; a prolific tree.

2. Productive; having the quality of generating; as a controversy prolific of evil consequences; a prolific brain.

3. A prolific flower, [prolifer, ] in botany is one which produces a second flower from its own substance, or which has smaller flowers growing out of the principal one. But proliferous is commonly used.

Prolifically

PROLIF'ICALLY, adverb Fruitfully; with great increase.

Prolification

PROLIFICA'TION, noun [See Prolific.] The generation of young or of plants.

1. In botany, the production of a second flower from the substance of the first. This is either from the center of a simple flower, or from the side of an aggregate flower.

Prolificness

PROLIF'ICNESS, noun The state of being prolific.

Prolix

PROLIX, adjective [Latin prolixus; pro and laxus, literally drawn out.]

1. Long; extended to a great length; minute in narration or argument; applied only to discourses, speeches and writings; as a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.

2. Of long duration. [Not in use.]

Prolixity

PROLIX'ITY

PROLIX'LY, adverb At great length.

Prolixly

PROLIX'LY, adv. At great length.

Prolixness

PROLIX'NESS, noun Great length; minute detail; applied only to discourses and writings. Prolixity is not always tedious.

Prolocutor

PROLOC'UTOR, noun [Latin proloquor; pro and loquor, to speak.]

The speaker or chairman of a convocation.

Prolocutorship

PROLOC'UTORSHIP, noun The office of station of a prolocutor.

Prologize

PRO'LOGIZE, verb intransitive To deliver a prologue. [Not in use.]

Prologue

PROLOGUE, noun pro'log. [Latin prologue; Gr. discourse.]

The preface or introduction to a discourse, or performance, chiefly the discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance or play begins.

PROLOGUE, verb transitive pro'log. To introduce with a formal preface.

Prolong

PROLONG', verb transitive [Latin pro and longus. See Long.]

1. To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of. Temperate habits tend to prolong life.

2. To lengthen; to draw out in time by delay; to continue.

Th' unhappy queen with talk prolong'd the night.

3. To put off to a distant time.

For I myself am not so well provided

As else I would be, were the day prolong'd.

4. To extend in space or length.

Prolongate

PROLON'GATE, verb transitive To extend or lengthen in space; as, to prolongate a line.

1. To extend in time. [Little used.]

Prolongated

PROLON'GATED, participle passive Extended in space; continued in length.

Prolongating

PROLON'GATING, participle present tense Lengthening in space.

Prolongation

PROLONGA'TION, noun The act of lengthening in time or space; as the prolongation of life.

The prolongation of a line.

1. Extension of time by delay or postponement; as the prolongation of days for payment.

Prolonged

PROLONG'ED, participle passive Lengthened in duration or space.

Prolonger

PROLONG'ER, noun He or that which lengthens in time or space.

Prolonging

PROLONG'ING, participle present tense Extending in time; continuing in length.

Prolusion

PROLU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin prolusio, proludo; pro and ludo, to play.] A prelude; entertainment; diverting performance. [Little used.]

Promenade

PROMENA'DE, noun

1. A walk for amusement or exercise.

2. A place for walking.

Promerit

PROMER'IT, verb transitive [Latin promereo, promeritum; pro and mereo, to merit.]

1. To oblige; to confer a favor on.

2. To deserve; to procure by merit.

[This word is little used or not at all.]

Promethean

PROMETHE'AN, adjective Pertaining to Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven.

Prominence

PROM'INENCE

PROM'INENCY, noun [Latin prominentia, from promineo; pro and minor, to menace, that is, to shoot forward.] A standing out from the surface of something, or that which juts out; protuberance; as the prominence of a joint; the prominence of a rock or cliff; the prominence of the nose. Small hills and knolls are prominences on the surface of the earth.

Prominency

PROM'INENCY, n. [L.prominentia, from promineo; pro and minor, to menace, that is, to shoot forward.] A standing out from the surface of something, or that which juts out; protuberance; as the prominence of a joint; the prominence of a rock or cliff; the prominence of the nose. Small hills and knolls are prominences on the surface of the earth.

Prominent

PROM'INENT, adjective [Latin prominens.] Standing out beyond the line or surface of something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as a prominent figure on a vase.

1. Full; large; as a prominent eye.

2. Eminent; distinguished above others; as a prominent character.

3. Principal; most visible or striking to the eye; conspicuous. The figure of a man or of a building holds a prominent place in a picture.

Prominently

PROM'INENTLY, adverb In a prominent manner; so as to stand out beyond the other parts; eminently; in a striking manner; conspicuously.

Promiscuous

PROMIS'CUOUS, adjective [Latin promiscuus; pro and misceo, to mix.]

1. Mingled; consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; confused; undistinguished; as a promiscuous crowd or mass.

A wild where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot.

2. Common; indiscriminate; not restricted to an individual; as promiscuous love or intercourse.

Promiscuously

PROMIS'CUOUSLY, adverb In a crowd or mass without order; with confused mixture; indiscriminately; as men of all classes promiscuously assembled; particles of different earths promiscuously united.

1. Without distinction of kinds.

Like beasts and birds promiscuously they join.

Promiscuousness

PROMIS'CUOUSNESS, noun A state of being mixed without order or distinction.

Promise

PROM'ISE, noun [Latin promissum, from promitto, to send before or forward; pro and mitto, to send.]

1. In a general sense, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it, either in honor, conscience or law, to do or forbear a certain act specified; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made, a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of the act. The promise of a visit to my neighbor, gives him a right to expect it, and I am bound in honor and civility to perform the promise Of such a promise human laws have no cognizance; but the fulfillment of it is one of the minor moralities, which civility, kindness and strict integrity require to be observed.

2. In law, a declaration, verbal or written, made by one person to another for a good or valuable consideration, in the nature of a covenant, by which the promiser binds himself, and as the case may be, his legal representatives, to do or forbear some act; and gives to the promisee a legal right to demand and enforce a fulfillment.

3. A binding declaration of something to be done or given for another's benefit; as the promise of a grant of land. A promise may be absolute or conditional; lawful or unlawful; express or implied. An absolute promise must be fulfilled at all events. The obligation to fulfill a conditional promise depends on the performance of the condition. An unlawful promise is not binding, because it is void; for it is incompatible with a prior paramount obligation of obedience to the laws. An express promise is one expressed in words or writing. An implied promise is one which reason and justice dictate. If I hire a man to perform a day's labor, without any declaration that I will pay him, the law presumes a promise on my part that I will give him a reasonable reward, and will enforce much implied promise

4. Hopes; expectation, or that which affords expectation of future distinction; as a youth of great promise

My native country was full of youthful promise

5. That which is promised; fulfillment or grant of what is promised.

He commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father. Acts 1:4.

6. In Scripture, the promise of God is the declaration or assurance which God has given in his word of bestowing blessings on his people. Such assurance resting on the perfect justice, power, benevolence and immutable veracity of God, cannot fail of performance.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promises. 2 Peter 3:4.

PROM'ISE, verb transitive To make a declaration to another, which binds the promiser in honor, conscience or law, to do or forbear some act; as, to promise a visit to a friend; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money.

1. To afford reason to expect; as, the year promises a good harvest.

2. To make declaration or give assurance of some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow.

The proprietors promised large tracts of land.

PROM'ISE, verb intransitive To assure one by a promise or binding declaration. The man promises fair; let us forgive him.

1. To afford hopes or expectations; to give ground to expect good. The youth promises to be an eminent man; the wheat promises to be a good crop; the weather promises to be pleasant.

2. In popular use, this verb sometimes threatens or assures of evil. The rogue shall be punished, I promise you.

Will not the ladies be afraid of the lion?

--I fear it, I promise you.

In the latter example, promise is equivalent to declare; 'I declare to you.'

3. To promise one's self, to be assured or to have strong confidence.

I dare promise myself you will attest the truth of all I have advanced.

Promise-Breach

PROM'ISE-BREACH, noun Violation of promise.

Promise-Breaker

PROM'ISE-BREAKER, noun A violator of promises.

Promised

PROM'ISED, participle passive Engaged by word or writing; stipulated.

Promisee

PROMISEE', noun The person to whom a promise is made.

Promiser

PROM'ISER, noun One who promises; one who engages, assures, stipulates or covenants. Fear, says Dryden, is a great promiser We may say that hope is a very liberal promiser

The import of a promise, when disputed, is not to be determined by the sense of the promiser nor by the expectations of the promisee.

[Note. In law language, promisor is used, but without necessity or advantage.]

Promising

PROM'ISING, participle present tense Engaging by words or writing; stipulating; assuring.

1. Affording just expectations of good or reasonable ground of hope; as a promising youth; a promising prospect. [In this sense, the word may be a participle or an adjective.]

Promissorily

PROM'ISSORILY, adverb By way of promise.

Promissory

PROM'ISSORY, adjective Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.

1. In law, a promissory note is a writing which contains a promise of the payment of money or the delivery of property to another, at or before a time specified, in consideration of value received by the promiser. In England, promissory notes and bills of exchange, being negotiable for the payment of a less sum than twenty shillings, are declared to be void by Stat 15. Geo.III.