Promontory – Propulsation

Promontory

PROM'ONTORY, noun [Latin promontorium; pro, forward, and mons, a mountain.] In geography, a high point of land or rock, projecting into the sea beyond the line of the coast; a head land. It differs from a cape in denoting high land; a cape may be a similar projection of land high or low.

Like one that stands upon promontory

If you drink tea on a promontory that overhangs the sea, it is preferable to an assembly.

Promote

PROMO'TE, verb transitive [Latin promotus, promoveo, to move forward; pro and moveo, to move.]

1. To forward; to advance; to contribute to the growth, enlargement or excellence of any thing valuable, or to the increase of any thing evil; as, to promote learning, knowledge, virtue or religion; to promote the interest of commerce or agriculture; to promote the arts; to promote civilization or refinement; to promote the propagation of the gospel; to promote vice and disorder.

2. To excite; as, to promote mutiny.

3. To exalt; to elevate; to raise; to prefer in rank or honor.

I will promote thee to very great honors. Numbers 22:17.

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee. Proverbs 4:8.

Promoted

PROMO'TED, participle passive Advanced; exalted.

Promoter

PROMO'TER, noun He or that which forwards, advances or promotes; an encourager; as a promoter of charity.

1. One that excites; as a promoter of sedition.

2. An informer; a make-bate.

Promoting

PROMO'TING, participle present tense Forwarding; advancing; exciting; exalting.

Promotion

PROMO'TION, noun

1. The act of promoting; advancement; encouragement; as the promotion of virtue or morals; the promotion of peace or of discord.

2. Exaltation in rank or honor; preferment.

My promotion will be thy destruction.

Promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west, nor from the south. Psalms 75:6.

Promotive

PROMO'TIVE, adjective Tending to advance or promote; tending to encourage.

Promove

PROMOVE, verb transitive To advance. [Not used.]

Prompt

PROMPT, adjective [Latin promptus, from promo.]

1. Ready and quick to act as occasion demands.

Very discerning and prompt in giving orders.

2. Of a ready disposition; acting with cheerful alacrity; as prompt in obedience or compliance.

Tell him

I'm prompt to lay my crown at's feet.

3. Quick; ready; not dilatory; applied to things; as, he manifested a prompt obedience; he yielded prompt assistance.

When Washington heard the voice of his country in distress, his obedience was prompt

4. Quick; hasty; indicating boldness or forwardness.

And you perhaps too prompt in your replies.

5. Ready; present; told down; as prompt payment.

6. Easy; unobstructed.

PROMPT, verb transitive To incite; to move or excite to action or exertion; to instigate. Insults prompt anger or revenge; love prompts desire; benevolence prompts men to devote their time and services to spread the gospel. Ambition prompted Alexander to wish for more worlds to conquer.

1. To assist a speaker when at a loss, by pronouncing the words forgotten or next in order, as to prompt an actor; or to assist a learner, by suggesting something forgotten or not understood.

2. To dictate; to suggest to the mind.

And whisp'ring angels prompt her golden dreams.

3. To remind. [Not used.]

Prompted

PROMPT'ED, participle passive Incited; moved to action; instigated; assisted in speaking or learning.

Prompter

PROMPT'ER, noun One that prompts; one that admonishes or incites to action.

1. One that is placed behind the scenes in a play-house, whose business is to assist the speakers when at a loss, by uttering the first words of a sentence or words forgotten; or any person who aids a public speaker when at a loss, by suggesting the next words of his piece.

Prompting

PROMPT'ING, participle present tense Inciting; moving to action; aiding a speaker when at a loss for the words of his piece.

Promptitude

PROMPT'ITUDE, noun [Latin promptus.]

1. Readiness; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands. In the sudden vicissitudes of a battle, promptitude in a commander is one of the most essential qualifications.

2. Readiness of will; cheerful alacrity; as promptitude in obedience or compliance.

Promptly

PROMPT'LY, adverb Readily; quickly; expeditiously; cheerfully.

Promptness

PROMPT'NESS, noun Readiness; quickness of decision or action. The young man answered questions with great promptness

1. Cheerful willingness; alacrity.

2. Activity; briskness; as the promptness of animal actions.

Promptuary

PROMPT'UARY, noun [Latin promptuarium.] That form which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository.

Prompture

PROMPT'URE, noun Suggestion; incitement.

Promulgate

PROMUL'GATE, verb transitive [Latin promulgo.] To publish; to make known by open declaration; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council. It is particularly applied to the publication of laws and the gospel. The moral law was promulgated at mount Sinai. The apostles promulgated the gospel. Edicts, laws and orders are promulgated by circular letters, or through the medium of the public prints.

Promulgated

PROMUL'GATED, participle passive Published; made publicly known.

Promulgating

PROMUL'GATING, participle present tense Publishing.

Promulgation

PROMUL'GATION, noun The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as the promulgation of the law or of the gospel.

Promulgator

PROMUL'GATOR, noun A publisher; one who makes known or teaches publicly what was before unknown.

Promulge

PROMULGE, verb transitive promulj'. To promulgate; to publish or teach. [Less used than promulgate.]

Promulged

PROMULG'ED, participle passive Published.

Promulger

PROMULG'ER, noun One who publishes or teaches what was before unknown.

Promulging

PROMULG'ING, participle present tense Publishing.

Pronation

PRONA'TION, noun [from Latin pronus, having the face downwards.]

1. Among anatomists, that motion of the radius whereby the palm of the hand is turned downwards; the act of turning the palm downwards; opposed to supination.

2. That position of the hand, when the thumb is turned towards the body, and the palm downwards.

Pronator

PRONA'TOR, noun A muscle of the fore arm which serves to turn the palm of the hand downward; opposed to supinator.

Prone

PRONE, adjective [Latin pronus.] Bending forward; inclined; not erect.

1. Lying with the face downward; contrary to supine.

2. Headlong; precipitous; inclining in descent.

Down thither prone in flight.

3. Sloping; declivous; inclined.

Since the floods demand

For their descent, a prone and sinking land.

4. Inclined; propense; disposed; applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense; as men prone to evil, prone to strife, prone to intemperance, prone to deny the truth, prone to change.

Proneness

PRO'NENESS, noun The state of bending downwards; opposed to the erectness of man.

1. The state of lying with the face downwards; contrary to supineness.

2. Descent; declivity; as the proneness of a hill.

3. Inclination of mind, heart or temper; propension; disposition; as the proneness of the Israelites to idolatry; proneness to self-gratification or to self-justification; proneness to comply with temptation; sometimes in a good sense; as ; the proneness of good men to commiserate want.

Prong

PRONG, noun

1. A sharp pointed instrument.

Prick it on a prong of iron.

2. The tine of a fork or of a similar instrument; as a fork of two or three prongs. [This is the sense in which it is used in America.]

Pronghoe

PRONG'HOE, noun A hoe with prongs to break the earth.

Pronity

PRONITY, for proneness, is not used.

Pronominal

PRONOM'INAL, adjective [Latin pronomen. See Pronoun.]

Belonging to or of the nature of a pronoun.

Pronoun

PRO'NOUN, noun [Latin pronomen; pro, for, and nomen, name.]

In grammar, a word used instead of a noun or name, to prevent the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English, are I, thou or you, he, she, we, ye and they. The last is used for the name of things, as well as for that of persons. Other words are used for the names of persons, things, sentences, phrases and for adjectives; and when they stand for sentences, phrases and adjectives, they are not strictly pronouns, but relatives, substitutes or representatives of such sentences. Thus we say, 'the jury found the prisoner guilty, and the court pronounced sentence on him. This or that gave great joy to the spectators.' In these sentences, this or that represents the whole preceding sentence, which is the proper antecedent. We also say, 'the jury pronounced the man guilty, this or that or which he could not be, for he proved an alibi.' In which sentence, this or that or which refers immediately to guilty, as its antecedent.

Pronounce

PRONOUNCE, verb transitive pronouns'. [Latin pronuncio; pro and nuncio.]

1. To speak; to utter articulately. The child is not able to pronounce words composed of difficult combinations of letters. Adults rarely learn to pronounce correctly a foreign language.

2. To utter formally, officially or solemnly. The court pronounced sentence of death on the criminal.

Then Baruch answered them, he pronounced all these words to me with his mouth. Jeremiah 36:7.

Sternly he pronounc'd

The rigid interdiction.

3. To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; as, to pronounce an oration.

4. To speak; to utter, in almost any manner.

5. To declare or affirm. He pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.

PRONOUNCE, verb intransitive pronouns'. To speak; to make declaration; to utter an opinion.

How confidently so ever men pronounce of themselves--

Pronounceable

PRONOUNCEABLE, adjective pronouns'able. That may be pronounced or uttered.

Pronounced

PRONOUN'CED, participle passive Spoken; uttered; declared solemnly.

Pronouncer

PRONOUN'CER, noun One who utters or declares.

Pronouncing

PRONOUN'CING, participle present tense Speaking; uttering; declaring.

1. adjective Teaching pronunciation.

Pronunciation

PRONUNCIA'TION, noun [Latin pronunciatio.]

1. The act of uttering with articulation; utterance; as the pronunciation of syllables or words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation

2. The mode of uttering words or sentences; particularly, the art or manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; now called delivery.

Pronunciative

PRONUN'CIATIVE, adjective Uttering confidently; dogmatical.

Proof

PROOF, noun

1. Trial; essay; experiment; any effort, process or operation that ascertains truth or fact. Thus the quality of spirit is ascertained by proof; the strength of gun-powder, of fire arms and of cannon is determined by proof; the correctness of operations in arithmetic is ascertained by proof

2. In law and logic, that degree of evidence which convinces the mind of the certainty of truth of fact, and produces belief. proof is derived from personal knowledge, or from the testimony of others, or from conclusive reasoning. proof differs from demonstration, which is applicable only to those truths of which the contrary is inconceivable.

This has neither evidence of truth, nor proof sufficient to give it warrant.

3. Firmness or hardness that resists impression, or yields not to force; impenetrability of physical bodies; as a wall that is of proof against shot.

See arms of proof

4. Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken; as a mind or virtue that is proof against the arts of seduction and the assaults of temptation.

5. The proof of spirits consists in little bubbles which appear on the top of the liquor after agitation, called the bead, and by the French, chapelet. Hence,

6. The degree of strength in spirit; as high proof; first proof; second, third or fourth proof

7. In printing and engraving, a rough impression of a sheet, taken for correction; plural proofs, not proves.

8. Armor sufficiently firm to resist impression. [Not used.]

PROOF is used elliptically for of proof

I have found thee

PROOF against all temptation.

It is sometimes followed by to, more generally by against.

Proofless

PROOF'LESS, adjective Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved.

Prop

PROP, verb transitive

1. To support or prevent from falling by placing something under or against; as, to prop a fence or an old building.

2. To support by standing under or against.

Till the bright mountains prop th' incumbent sky.

3. To support; to sustain; in a general sense; as, to prop a declining state.

I prop myself upon the few supports that are left me.

PROP, noun That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which any thing rests for support; a support; a stay; as a prop for vines; a prop for an old building. An affectionate child is the prop of declining age.

Propagable

PROP'AGABLE, adjective [See Propagate.] That may be continued or multiplied by natural generation or production; applied to animals and vegetables.

1. That may be spread or extended by any means, as tenets, doctrines or principles.

Propagandism

PROP'AGANDISM, noun [See Propagate.] The art or practice of propagating tenets or principles.

Propagandist

PROPAGAND'IST, noun A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles.

Bonaparte selected a body to compose his Sanhedrim of political propagandists.

Propagate

PROP'AGATE, verb transitive [Latin propago. See Prop. The Latin noun propago, is the English prop, and the termination ago, as in cartilago, etc. The sense of the noun is that which is set or thrust in.]

1. To continue or multiply the kind by generation or successive production; applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate any species of fruit tree.

2. To spread; to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.

3. To spread from person to person; to extend; to give birth to, or originate and spread; as, to propagate a story or report.

4. To carry from place to place; to extend by planting and establishing in places before destitute; as, to propagate the christian religion.

5. To extend; to increase.

Griefs of my own lie heavy in my breast,

Which thou wilt propagate

6. To generate; to produce.

Superstitious notions, propagated in fancy, are hardly ever totally eradicated.

PROP'AGATE, verb intransitive To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants. Wild horses propagate in the forests of S. America.

Propagated

PROP'AGATED, participle passive Continued or multiplied by generation or production of the same kind; spread; extended.

Propagating

PROP'AGATING, participle present tense Continuing or multiplying the kind by generation or production; spreading and establishing.

Propagation

PROPAGA'TION, noun [Latin propagatio.]

1. The act of propagating; the continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as the propagation of animals or plants.

There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation

2. The spreading or extension of any thing; as the propagation of sound or of reports.

3. The spreading of any thing by planting and establishing in places before destitute; as the propagation of the gospel among pagans.

4. A forward or promotion.

Propagator

PROP'AGATOR, noun One that continues or multiplies his own species by generation.

1. One that continues or multiplies any species of animals or plants.

2. One that spreads or causes to circulate, as a report.

3. One that plants and establishes in a country destitute; as a propagator of the gospel.

4. One that plants, originates or extends; one that promotes.

Propel

PROPEL', verb transitive [Latin propello; pro, forward, and pello, to drive.]

To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force. The wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by the force of gun-powder; mill wheels are propelled by water or steam; the blood is propelled through the arteries and veins by the action of the heart. [This word is commonly applied to material bodies.]

Propelled

PROPEL'LED, participle passive Driven forward.

Propelling

PROPEL'LING, participle present tense Driving forward.

Propend

PROPEND', verb intransitive [Latin propendeo; pro, forward, and pendeo, to hang.]

To lean towards; to incline; to be disposed in favor of any thing. [Little used.]

Propendency

PROPEND'ENCY, noun [Latin propendens.] A leaning towards; inclination; tendency of desire to any thing.

1. Preconsideration; attentive deliberation. [Little used.]

Propending

PROPEND'ING, participle present tense Inclining towards.

Propense

PROPENSE, adjective propens'. [Latin propensus.] Leaning towards, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed, either to good or evil; as women propense to holiness.

Propension

PROPEN'SION

PROPENS'ITY, noun [Latin propensio.]

1. Bent of mind, natural or acquired; inclination; in a moral sense; disposition to any thing good or evil, particularly to evil; as a propensity to sin; the corrupt propensity of the will.

It requires critical nicety to find out the genius or propensions of a child.

2. Natural tendency; as the propension of bodies to a particular place.

[In a moral sense, propensity is now chiefly used.]

Propensity

PROPENS'ITY, n. [L. propensio.] 1. Bent of mind, natural or acquired; inclination; in a moral sense; disposition to any thing good or evil, particularly to evil; as a propensity to sin; the corrupt propensity of the will. It requires critical nicety to find out the genius or propensions of a child.2. Natural tendency; as the propension of bodies to a particular place. [In a moral sense, propensity is now chiefly used.]

Proper

PROP'ER, adjective [Latin proprius, supposed to be allied to prope, near.]

1. Peculiar; naturally or essentially belonging to a person or thing; not common. That is not proper which is common to many. Every animal has his proper instincts and inclinations, appetites and habits. Every muscle and vessel of the body has its proper office. Every art has it proper rules. Creation is the proper work of an Almighty Being.

2. Particularly suited to. Every animal lives in his proper element.

3. One's own. It may be joined with any possessive pronoun; as our proper son.

Our proper conceptions.

Now learn the difference at your proper cost.

[Note. Own is often used in such phrases; 'at your own proper cost.' This is really tautological, but sanctioned by usage, and expressive of emphasis.]

4. Noting an individual; pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; as a proper name. Dublin is the proper name of a city.

5. Fit; suitable; adapted; accommodated. A thin dress is not proper for clothing in a cold climate. Stimulants are proper remedies for debility. Gravity of manners is very proper for persons of advanced age.

In Athens, all was pleasure, mirth and play

All proper to the spring and sprightly May.

6. Correct; just; as a proper word; a proper expression.

7. Not figurative.

8. Well formed; handsome.

Moses was a proper child. Hebrews 11:23.

9. Tall; lusty; handsome with bulk. [Low and not used.]

10. In vulgar language, very; as proper good; proper sweet. [This is very improper, as well as vulgar.]

Proper receptacle, in botany, that which supports only a single flower or fructification; proper perianth or involucre, that which incloses only a single flower; proper flower or corol, one of the single florets or corollets in an aggregate or compound flower; proper nectary, separate form the petals and other parts of the flower.

Properly

PROP'ERLY, adverb Fitly; suitably; in a proper manner; as a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.

1. In a strict sense.

The miseries of life are not properly owing to the unequal distribution of things.

Properness

PROP'ERNESS, noun The quality of being proper. [Little used.]

1. Tallness. [Not in use.]

2. Perfect form; handsomeness.

Property

PROP'ERTY, noun [This seems to be formed directly from proper. The Latin is proprietas.]

1. A peculiar quality of any thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; called by logicians an essential mode. Thus color is a property of light; extension and figure are properties of bodies.

2. An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art or bestowed by man. The poem has the properties which constitute excellence.

3. Quality; disposition.

It is the property of an old sinner to find delight in reviewing his own villainies in others.

4. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing; ownership. In the beginning of the world, the Creator gave to man dominion over the earth, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air, and over every living thing. This is the foundation of man's property in the earth and in all its productions. Prior occupancy of land and of wild animals gives to the possessor the property of them. The labor of inventing, making or producing any thing constitutes one of the highest and most indefeasible titles to property property is also acquired by inheritance, by gift or by purchase. property is sometimes held in common, yet each man's right to his share in common land or stock is exclusively his own. One man may have the property of the soil, and another the right of use, by prescription or by purchase.

5. Possession held on one's own right.

6. The thing owned; that to which a person has the legal title, whether in his possession or not. It is one of the greatest blessings of civil society that the property of citizens is well secured.

7. An estate, whether in lands, goods or money; as a man of large property or small property

8. An estate; a farm; a plantation. In this sense, which is common in the United States and in the West Indies, the word has a plural.

The still-houses on the sugar plantations, vary in size, according to the fancy of the proprietor or the magnitude of the property

I shall confine myself to such properties as fall within the reach of daily observation.

9. Nearness or right.

Here I disclaim all my paternal care,

Propinquity and property of blood.

10. Something useful; an appendage; a theatrical term.

I will draw a bill of properties.

High pomp and state are useful properties.

11. Propriety. [Not in use.]

Literary property the exclusive right of printing, publishing and making profit by one's own writings. No right or title to a thing can be so perfect as that which is created by a man's own labor and invention. The exclusive right of a man to his literary productions, and to the use of them for his own profit, is entire and perfect, as the faculties employed and labor bestowed are entirely and perfectly his own. On what principle then can a legislature or a court determine that an author can enjoy only a temporary property in his own productions? If a man's right to his own productions in writing is as perfect as to the productions of his farm or his shop, how can the former by abridged or limited, while the latter is held without limitation? Why do the productions of manual labor rank higher in the scale of rights or property than the productions of the intellect?

PROP'ERTY, verb transitive To invest with qualities, or to take as one's own; to appropriate. [An awkward word and not used.]

Prophane

PROPHANE. [See Profane.]

Prophasis

PRO'PHASIS, noun [Gr. to foretell.] In medicine, prognosis; foreknowledge of a disease.

Prophecy

PROPH'ECY, noun [Gr. to foretell, before and to tell. This ought to be written prophesy.]

1. A foretelling; prediction; a declaration of something to come. As God only knows future events with certainty, no being but God or some person informed by him, can utter a real prophecy The prophecies recorded in Scripture, when fulfilled, afford most convincing evidence of the divine original of the Scriptures, as those who uttered the prophecies could not have foreknown the events predicted without supernatural instruction. 2 Peter 1:19.

2. In Scripture, a book of prophecies; a history; as the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chronicles 9:29.

3. Preaching; public interpretation of Scripture; exhortation or instruction. Proverbs 31:1.

Prophesied

PROPH'ESIED, participle passive Foretold; predicted.

Prophesier

PROPH'ESIER, noun One who predicts events.

Prophesy

PROPH'ESY, verb transitive To foretell future events; to predict.

I hate him, for he doth not prophesy good concerning

me, but evil. 1 Kings 22:8.

1. To foreshow. [Little used.]

PROPH'ESY, verb intransitive To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. Jeremiah 11:21.

1. In Scripture, to preach; to instruct in religious doctrines; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to exhort. 1 Corinthians 13:9. Ezekiel 37:4.

Prophesying

PROPH'ESYING, participle present tense Foretelling events.

PROPH'ESYING, noun The act of foretelling or of preaching.

Prophet

PROPH'ET, noun [Latin propheta.]

1. One that foretells future events; a predicter; a foreteller.

2. In Scripture, a person illuminated, inspired or instructed by God to announce future events; as Moses, Elijah, David, Isaiah, etc.

3. An interpreter; one that explains or communicates sentiments. Exodus 7:1.

4. One who pretends to foretell; an imposter; as a false prophet Acts 13:6.

of the prophets, among the Israelites, a school or college in which young men were educated and qualified for public teachers. These students were called sons of the prophets.

Prophetess

PROPH'ETESS, noun A female prophet; a woman who foretells future events, as Miriam, Huldah, Anna, etc. Exodus 15:20. Judges 4:4. Luke 2:36.

Prophetic

PROPHET'IC

PROPHET'ICAL, adjective Containing prophecy; foretelling future events; as prophetic writings.

1. Unfolding future events; as prophetic dreams.

It has of before the thing foretold.

And fears are oft prophetic of th' event.

Prophetical

PROPHET'ICAL, a. Containing prophecy; foretelling future events; as prophetic writings. 1. Unfolding future events; as prophetic dreams. It has of before the thing foretold. And fears are oft prophetic of th' event.

Prophetically

PROPHET'ICALLY, adverb By way of prediction; in the manner of prophecy.

Prophetize

PROPH'ETIZE, verb intransitive To give prediction. [Not used]

Prophylactic

PROPHYLAC'TIC

PROPHYLAC'TICAL, adjective [Gr. to prevent, to guard against; to preserve.]

In medicine, preventive; defending from disease.

PROPHYLAC'TIC, noun A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Prophylactical

PROPHYLAC'TICAL, a. [Gr. to prevent, to guard against; to preserve.]

In medicine, preventive; defending from disease.

Propination

PROPINA'TION, noun [Latin propinatio, propino; Gr. to drink.]

The act of pledging, or drinking first and then offering the cup to another.

Propine

PROPI'NE, verb transitive [Latin propino, supra.] To pledge; to drink first and then offer the cup to another. [Not used.]

1. To expose. [Not used.]

Propinquity

PROPIN'QUITY, noun [Latin propinquitas, from propinquus, near.]

1. Nearness in place; neighborhood.

2. Nearness in time.

3. Nearness of blood; kindred.

Propitiable

PROPI'TIABLE, adjective [See Propitiate.] That may be induced to favor, or that may be made propitious.

Propitiate

PROPI'TIATE, verb transitive [Latin propitio; pio. Eng. pity.]

To conciliate; to appease one offended and render him favorable; to make propitious.

Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage,

The god propitiate and the pest assuage.

Propitiated

PROPI'TIATED, participle passive Appeased and rendered favorable; conciliated.

Propitiating

PROPI'TIATING, participle present tense Conciliating; appeasing the wrath of and rendering favorable.

Propitiation

PROPITIATION, noun propisia'shon.

1. The act of appeasing wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

2. In theology, the atonement or atoning sacrifice offered to God to assuage his wrath and render him propitious to sinners. Christ is the propitiation for the sins of men. Romans 3:25. 1 John 2:2.

Propitiator

PROPITIA'TOR, noun One who propitiates.

Propitiatory

PROPI'TIATORY, adjective Having the power to make propitious; as a propitiatory sacrifice.

PROPI'TIATORY, noun Among the Jews, the mercy-seat; the lid or cover of the ark of the covenant, lined within and without with plates of gold. This was a type of Christ.

Propitious

PROPI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin propitius.] Favorable; kind; applied to men.

1. Disposed to be gracious or merciful; ready to forgive sins and bestow blessings; applied to God.

2. Favorable; as a propitious season.

Propitiously

PROPI'TIOUSLY, adverb Favorably; kindly.

Propitiousness

PROPI'TIOUSNESS, noun Kindness; disposition to treat another kindly; disposition to forgive.

1. Favorableness; as the propitiousness of the season or climate.

Proplasm

PRO'PLASM, noun [Gr. a device.] A mold; a matrix.

Proplastice

PROPLAS'TICE, noun [supra.] The art of making molds for castings.

Propolis

PRO'POLIS, noun [Gr. before the city, or the front of the city.]

A thick odorous substance having some resemblance to wax and smelling like storax; used by bees to stop the holes and crevices in their hives to prevent the entrance of cold air, etc. Pliny represents it as the third coat; the first he calls commosis; the second pissoceros; the third, more solid than the others, he calls propolis

This account of the propolis may not be perfectly correct, as authors do not agree in their descriptions of it.

Proponent

PROPO'NENT, noun [Latin proponens; pro and pono, to place.]

One that makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition.

Proportion

PROPORTION, noun [Latin proportio; pro and portio, part or share. See Portion.]

1. The comparative relation of any one thing to another. Let a man's exertions be in proportion to his strength.

2. The identity or similitude of two ratios. proportion differs from ratio. Ratio is the relation which determines the quantity of one thing from the quantity of another, without the intervention of a third. Thus the ratio of 5 and Isaiah 2:1; the ratio of 8 and 16 is 2. proportion is the sameness or likeness of two such relations. Thus 5 is to 10, as 8 to 16, or A is to B, as C is to D; that is, 5 bears the same relation to 10, as 8 does to 16. Hence we say, such numbers are in proportion

PROPORTION, in mathematics, an equality or ratios.

The term proportion is sometimes improperly used for ratio. The ratio between two quantities, is expressed by the quotient of one divided by the other; thus, the ratio of 10 to 5 is 2, and the ratio of 16 to 8 is 2. These two equal ratios constitute a proportion which is expressed by saying, 10 is to 5 as 16 is to 8; or more concisely, 10:5::16:8. [See Ratio.]

3. In arithmetic, a rule by which, when three numbers are given, a fourth number is found, which bears the same relation to the third as the second does to the first; or a fourth number is found, bearing the same relation to the second as the first does to the third. The former is called direct, and the latter, inverse proportion

4. Symmetry; suitable adaptation of one part or thing to another; as the proportion of one limb to another in the human body; the proportion of the length and breadth of a room to its highth.

Harmony, with every grace,

Place in the fair proportions of her face.

5. Equal or just share; as, to ascertain the proportion of profit to which each partner in a company is entitled.

6. Form; size. [Little used.]

7. The relation between unequal things of the same kind, by which their several parts correspond to each other with an equal augmentation and diminution, as in reducing and enlarging figures.

[This more properly belongs to ratio.]

Harmonical or musical proportion is when, of three numbers, the first is to the third as the difference of the first and second to the difference of the second and third. Thus 2.3.6. are in harmonical proportion; for 2 is to 6 as 1 to 3. So also four numbers are harmonical, when the first is to the fourth, as the difference of the first and second is to the difference of the third and fourth. Thus, 24.16.12.9. are harmonical, for 24 :9 ::8 :3.

Arithmetical and geometrical proportion [See Progression, No.4.]

Reciprocal proportion an equality between a direct and a reciprocal ratio. Thus, 4 :2 ::1/3 :1/6. [See Reciprocals, and Reciprocal ratio.]

PROPORTION, verb transitive To adjust the comparative relation of one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its highth, or the thickness of a thing to its length; to proportion our expenditures to our income.

In the loss of an object, we do not proportion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

1. To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.

Proportionable

PROPORTIONABLE, adjective That may be proportioned or made proportional. This is the true sense of the word; but it is erroneously used in the sense of proportional, being in proportion; having a due comparative relation; as infantry with a proportionable number of horse.

Proportionably

PROPORTIONABLY, adverb According to proportion or comparative relation; as a large body, with limbs proportionably large.

Proportional

PROPORTIONAL, adjective Having a due comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional In pharmacy, medicines are compounded of certain proportional quantities of ingredients. The velocity of a moving body is proportional to the impelling force, when the quantity of matter is given; its momentum is proportional to the quantity of matter it contains, when its velocity is given.

PROPORTIONAL, in chimistry, a term employed in the theory of definite proportions, to denote the same as the weight of an atom or a prime. [See Prime.]

PROPORTIONALs, in geometry, are quantities, either linear or numeral, which bear the same ratio or relation to each other.

Proportionality

PROPORTIONAL'ITY, noun The quality of being in proportion.

Proportionally

PROPORTIONALLY, adverb In proportion; in due degree; with suitable comparative relation; as all parts of a building being proportionally large.

Proportionate

PROPORTIONATE, adjective Adjusted to something else according to a certain rate or comparative relation; proportional.

The connection between the end and means is proportionate

Punishment should be proportionate to the transgression.

PROPORTIONATE, verb transitive To proportion; to make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate or to due comparative relation; as, to proportionate punishments to crimes. [This verb is less used than proportion.]

Proportionately

PROPORTIONATELY, adverb With due proportion; according to a settled or suitable rate or degree.

Proportionateness

PROPORTIONATENESS, noun The state of being adjusted by due or settled proportion or comparative relation; suitableness of proportions.

Proportioned

PROPORTIONED, participle passive Made or adjusted with due proportion or with symmetry of parts.

Proportioning

PROPORTIONING, participle present tense Making proportional.

Proportionless

PROPORTIONLESS, adjective Without proportion; without symmetry of parts.

Proposal

PROPO'SAL, noun s as z. [from propose.]

1. That which is offered or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design, terms or conditions proposed; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage; proposals for subscription to a loan or to a literary work.

2. Offer to the mind; as the proposal of an agreeable object.

Propose

PROPO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin propono, proposui; ]

1. To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance or adoption; as, to propose a bill or resolve to a legislative body; to propose terms of peach; to propose a question or subject for discussion; to propose an alliance by treaty or marriage; to propose alterations or amendments in a law.

2. To offer or present for consideration.

In learning any thing, as little as possible should be proposed to the mind at first.

To propose to one's self, to intend; to design; to form a design in the mind.

PROPO'SE, verb intransitive To lay schemes. [Not in use.]

[Propose is often used for purpose; as I propose to ride to New York to-morrow. Purpose and propose are different forms of the same word.]

Proposed

PROPO'SED, participle passive Offered or presented for consideration, discussion, acceptance or adoption.

Proposer

PROPO'SER, noun One that offers any thing for consideration or adoption.

Proposing

PROPO'SING, participle present tense Offering for consideration, acceptance or adoption.

Proposition

PROPOSI'TION, noun s as z. [Latin propositio, from propositus, propono.]

1. That which is proposed; that which is offered for consideration, acceptance or adoption; a proposal; offer of terms. The enemy made propositions of peace; the propositions were not accepted.

2. In logic, one of the three parts of a regular argument; the part of an argument in which some quality, negative or positive, is attributed to a subject; as, 'snow is white; ' 'water is fluid; ' 'vice is not commendable.'

3. In mathematics, a statement in terms of either a truth to be demonstrated, or an operation to be performed. It is called a theorem, when it is something to be proved; and a problem, when it is something to be done.

4. In oratory, that which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; any thing stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.

5. In poetry, the first part of a poem, in which the author states the subject or matter of it. Horace recommends modesty and simplicity in the proposition of a poem.

Propositional

PROPOSI'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a proposition; considered as a proposition; as a propositional sense.

Propound

PROPOUND', verb transitive [Latin propono; pro and pono, to set, put or place.]

1. To propose; to offer for consideration; as, to propound a rule of action.

The existence of the church hath been propounded as an object of faith.

2. To offer; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question.

3. In congregational churches, to propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church. Persons intending to make public profession of their faith, and thus unite with the church, are propounded before the church and congregation; that is, their intention is notified some days previous, for the purpose of giving opportunity to members of the church to object to their admission to such communion, if they see cause.

Propounded

PROPOUND'ED, participle passive Proposed; offered for consideration.

Propounder

PROPOUND'ER, noun One that proposes or offers for consideration.

Propounding

PROPOUND'ING, participle present tense Proposing; offering for consideration.

Propped

PROP'PED, participle passive [from prop.] Supported; sustained by something placed under.

Propping

PROP'PING, participle present tense Supporting by something beneath.

Proprefect

PROPRE'FECT, noun Among the Romans, a prefect's lieutenant commissioned to do a part of the duty of the perfect.

Propretor

PROPRE'TOR, noun [Latin proproetor.] Among the Romans, a magistrate who, having discharged the office of pretor at home, was sent into a province to command there with his former pretorial authority; also, an officer sent extraordinarily into the provinces to administer justice with the authority of pretor.

Proprietary

PROPRI'ETARY, noun

1. A proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right. The grantees of Pennsylvania and Maryland and their heirs were called the proprietaries of those provinces.

2. In monasteries, such monks were called proprietaries, as had reserved goods and effects to themselves, notwithstanding their renunciation of all at the time of their profession.

PROPRI'ETARY, adjective Belonging to a proprietor or owner, or to a proprietary The governments of Pennsylvania and Maryland were formerly proprietary

Proprietor

PROPRI'ETOR, noun [from Latin proprietas, proprius.] An owner; the person who has the legal right or exclusive title to any thing whether in possession or not; as the proprietor of a farm or of a mill. By the gift of God, man is constituted the proprietor of the earth.

Proprietress

PROPRI'ETRESS, noun A female who has the exclusive legal right to a thing.

Propriety

PROPRI'ETY, noun [Latin proprietas, from proprius.]

1. Property; peculiar or exclusive right of possession; ownership. [This primary sense of the word, as used by Locke, Milton, Dryden, etc. seems not to be nearly or wholly obsolete. See Property.]

2. Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; consonance with established principles, rules or customs; justness; accuracy. propriety of conduct, in a moral sense, consists in its conformity to the moral law; propriety of behavior, consists in conformity to the established rules of decorum; propriety in language, is correctness in the use of words and phrases, according to established usage, which constitutes the rule of speaking and writing.

3. Proper state.

Propt

PROPT. [See Propped.]

Propugn

PROPUGN, verb transitive propu'ne. [Latin propugno; pro and pugno, to fight.]

To contend for; to defend; to vindicate. [Little used.]

Propugnacle

PROPUG'NACLE, noun [Latin propugnaculum.] A fortress. [Not used.]

Propugnation

PROPUGNA'TION, noun [Latin propugnatio.] Defense. [Not used.]

Propugner

PROPUGNER, noun propu'ner. A defender; a vindicator.

Propulsation

PROPULSA'TION, noun [Latin propulsatio, propulso. See Propel.]

The act of driving away or repelling; the keeping at a distance.