Propulse – Providence

Propulse

PROPULSE, verb transitive propuls'. [Latin propulso; pro and pulso, to strike. See Propel.] To repel; to drive off. [Little used.]

Propulsion

PROPUL'SION, noun [Latin propulsus, propello. See Propel.]

The act of driving forward.

Pro rata, [Latin] in proportion.

Prore

PRORE, noun [Latin prora.] The prow or fore part of a ship. [Not in use, except in poetry.]

Pro re nata, [Latin] according to exigencies or circumstances.

Prorogation

PROROGA'TION, noun [Latin prorogatio. See Prorogue.]

1. Continuance in time or duration; a lengthening or prolongation of time; as the prorogation of something already possessed. [This use is uncommon.]

2. In England, the continuance of parliament from one session to another, as an adjournment is a continuance of the session from day to day. This is the established language with respect to the parliament of Great Britain. In the United States, the word is, I believe, rarely or never used; adjournment being used not only in its etymological sense, but for prorogation also.

Prorogue

PROROGUE, verb transitive prorog. [Latin prorogo; pro and rogo. The latter word signifies to ask, or to propose; but the primary sense is to reach, to stretch forward; and this is its import in the derivative prorogo.]

1. To protract; to prolong.

He prorogued his government.

2. To defer; to delay; as, to prorogue death.

[In the foregoing senses, the word is now rarely used.]

3. To continue the parliament from one session to another. Parliament is prorogued by the king's authority, either by the lord chancellor in his majesty's presence, or by commission, or by proclamation.

Proruption

PRORUP'TION, noun [Latin proruptus, prorumpo; pro and rumpo, to burst.]

The act of bursting forth; a bursting out.

Prosaic

PROSA'IC, adjective s as z. [Latin prosaicus, from prosa, prose.]

Pertaining to prose; resembling prose; not restricted by numbers; applied to writings; as a prosaic composition.

Prosal

PRO'SAL, adjective Prosaic. [Not used.]

Proscribe

PROSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin proscribo; pro and scribo, to write. The sense of this word originated in the Roman practice of writing the names of persons doomed to death, and posting the list in public.]

1. To doom to destruction; to put one out of the protection of law, and promise a reward for his head. Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.

2. To put out of the protection of the law.

Robert Vere, earl of Oxford, was banished the realm and proscribed.

3. To denounce and condemn as dangerous and not worthy of reception; to reject utterly.

In the year 325, the Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized by the council of Nice.

4. To censure and condemn as utterly unworthy of reception.

5. To interdict; as, to proscribe the use of ardent spirits.

Proscribed

PROSCRI'BED, participle passive Doomed to destruction; denounced as dangerous, or as unworthy of reception; condemned; banished.

Proscriber

PROSCRI'BER, noun One that dooms to destruction; one that denounces as dangerous, or as utterly unworthy of reception.

Proscribing

PROSCRI'BING, participle present tense Dooming to destruction; denouncing as unworthy of protection or reception; condemning; banishing.

Proscription

PROSCRIP'TION, noun [Latin proscriptio.] The act of proscribing or dooming to death; among the Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy. Such were the proscriptions of Sylla and Marius. Under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription

1. A putting out of the protection of law; condemning to exile.

2. Censure and condemnation; utter rejection.

Proscriptive

PROSCRIP'TIVE, adjective Pertaining to or consisting in proscription; proscribing.

Prose

PROSE, noun s as z. [Latin prosa.]

1. The natural language of man; language loose and unconfined to poetical measure, as opposed to verse or metrical composition.

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

2. A prayer used in the Romish church on particular days.

PROSE, verb transitive To write in prose

1. To make a tedious relation.

Prosecute

PROS'ECUTE, verb transitive [Latin prosecutus, prosequor; pro and sequor, to follow; Eng. to seed. See Essay.]

1. To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute or accomplish; to continue endeavors to obtain or complete; to continue efforts already begun; as, to prosecute a scheme; to prosecute an undertaking. The great canal in the State of New York has been prosecuted with success.

That which is morally good is to be desired and prosecuted.

This word signifies either to begin and carry on, or simply to continue what has been begun. When I say, 'I have devised a plan which I have not the courage or means to prosecute ' the word signifies to begin to execute. When we say, 'the nation began a war which it had not means to prosecute ' it signifies to continue to carry on. The latter is the genuine sense of the word, but both are well authorized. We prosecute any work of the hands or of the head. We prosecute a purpose, an enterprise, a work, studies, inquiries, etc.

2. To seek to obtain by legal process; as, to prosecute a right in a court of law.

3. To accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; as, to prosecute a man for trespass or for a riot. It is applied to civil suits for damages, as well as to criminal suits, but not to suits for debt. We never say, man prosecutes another on a bond or note, or in assumpsit; but he prosecutes his right or claim in an action of debt, detinue, trover or assumpsit. So we say, a man prosecutes another for assault and battery, for a libel or for slander, or for breaking his close. In these cases, prosecute signifies to begin and to continue a suit. The attorney general prosecutes offenders in the name of the king or of the state, by information or indictment.

Prosecute differs from persecute, as in law it is applied to legal proceedings only, whereas persecute implies cruelty, injustice or oppression.

Prosecuted

PROS'ECUTED, participle passive Pursued, or begun and carried on for execution or accomplishment, as a scheme; pursued for redress or punishment in a court of law, as a person; demanded in law, as a right or claim.

Prosecuting

PROS'ECUTING, participle present tense Pursuing, or beginning and carrying on for accomplishment; pursuing for redress or punishment; suing for, as a right or claim.

Prosecution

PROSECU'TION, noun The act or process of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design or undertaking; the prosecution of war or of commerce; the prosecution of a work, study, argument or inquiry.

1. The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity. to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong. The prosecution of a claim in chancery is very expensive. Malicious prosecutions subject the offender to punishment.

2. The institution or commencement and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment; as prosecutions of the crown or of the state by the attorney or solicitor general. Prosecutions may be by presentment, information or indictment.

Prosecutor

PROS'ECUTOR, noun One who pursues or carries on any purpose, plan or business.

1. The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit in a legal tribunal, or one who exhibits criminal charges against an offender. The attorney general is the prosecutor for the king or state.

Proselyte

PROS'ELYTE, noun [Gr. to come.] A new convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system or party. Thus a Gentile converted to Judaism is a proselyte; a pagan converted to christianity is a proselyte; and we speak familiarly of proselytes to the theories of Brown, of Black, or of Lavoisier. The word primarily refers to converts to some religious creed.

PROS'ELYTE, verb transitive To make a convert to some religion, or to some opinion or system.

Proselytism

PROS'ELYTISM, noun The making of converts to a religion or religious sect, or to any opinion, system or party.

They were possessed with a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree.

1. Conversion to a system or creed.

Proselytize

PROS'ELYTIZE, to make converts, or to convert, is not well authorized, or not in common use, and is wholly unnecessary.

Prosemination

PROSEMINA'TION, noun [Latin proseminatus; pro and semino, to sow.]

Propagation by seed. [Not used.]

Prosenneahedral

PROSENNEAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr.] In crystalography, having nine faces on two adjacent parts of the crystal.

Proser

PRO'SER, noun s as z. [from prose.] A writer of prose.

1. In cant language, one who makes a tedious narration of uninteresting matters.

Prosodial

PROSO'DIAL

PROSO'DIAN, noun [from prosody.] One skilled in prosody or in the rules of pronunciation and metrical composition.

Prosodian

PROSO'DIAN, n. [from prosody.] One skilled in prosody or in the rules of pronunciation and metrical composition.

Prosodical

PROSOD'ICAL, adjective [from prosody.] Pertaining to prosody or the quantity and accents of syllables; according to the rules of prosody.

Prosodist

PROS'ODIST, noun [from prosody.] One who understands prosody.

Prosody

PROS'ODY, noun [Latin prosodia; Gr. an ode.] That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification. It includes also the art of adjusting the accent and metrical arrangement of syllables in compositions for the lyre.

Prosopolepsy

PROSOPOLEP'SY, noun [Gr.] Respect of persons; more particularly, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed by a view of his external appearance.

Prosopopeia

PROSOPOPE'IA

PROS'OPOPY, noun [Gr. perso, and to make.] A figure in rhetoric by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings, or by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.

Prosopopy

PROS'OPOPY, n. [Gr. perso, and to make.] A figure in rhetoric by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings, or by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.

Prospect

PROS'PECT, noun [Latin prospectus, prospicio, to look forward; pro and specio, to see.]

1. View of things within the reach of the eye.

Eden and all the coast in prospect lay.

2. View of things to come; intellectual sight; expectation. The good man enjoys the prospect of future felicity.

3. That which is presented to the eye; the place and the objects seen. There is a noble prospect from the dome of the state house in Boston, a prospect diversified with land and water, and every thing that can please the eye.

4. Object of view.

Man to himself

Is a large prospect

5. View delineated or painted; picturesque representation of a landscape.

6. Place which affords an extended view.

7. Position of the front of a building; as a prospect towards the south or north. Ezekiel 40:44.

8. Expectation, or ground of expectation. There is a prospect of a good harvest. A man has a prospect of preferment; or he has little prospect of success.

9. A looking forward; a regard to something future.

Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, who lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to or provision for the remaining part of life? [Little used.]

Prospection

PROSPEC'TION, noun The act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants.

Prospective

PROSPECT'IVE, adjective Looking forward in time; regarding the future; opposed to retrospective.

The supporting of Bible societies is one of the points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing.

1. Acting with foresight.

The French king and king of Sweden, are circumspect, industrious and prospective in this affair.

2. Pertaining to a prospect; viewing at a distance.

3. Furnishing an extensive prospect.

Prospectively

PROSPECT'IVELY, adverb With reference to the future.

Prospectus

PROSPECT'US, noun [Latin] The plan of a literary work, containing the general subject or design, with the manner and terms of publication, and sometimes a specimen of it.

Prosper

PROS'PER, verb transitive [Latin prospero, from prosperus, from the Gr. to carry to or toward; to bear.] To favor; to render successful.

All things concur to prosper our design.

PROS'PER, verb intransitive To be successful; to succeed.

The Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. Genesis 39:3.

He that covereth his sins, shall not prosper Proverbs 28:13.

1. To grow or increase; to thrive; to make gain; as, to prosper in business. Our agriculture, commerce and manufactures now prosper

Prospered

PROS'PERED, participle passive Having success; favored.

Prospering

PROS'PERING, participle present tense Rendering successful; advancing in growth, wealth or any good.

Prosperity

PROSPER'ITY, noun [Latin prosperitas.] Advance or gain in any thing good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; success; attainment of the object desired; as the prosperity of arts; agricultural or commercial prosperity; national prosperity Our disposition to abuse the blessings of providence renders prosperity dangerous.

The prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Proverbs 1:32.

Prosperous

PROS'PEROUS, adjective [Latin prosperus.] Advancing in the pursuit of any thing desirable; making gain or increase; thriving; successful; as a prosperous trade; a prosperous voyage; a prosperous expedition or undertaking; a prosperous man, family or nation; a prosperous war.

The seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit. Zechariah 8:12.

1. Favorable; favoring success; as a prosperous wind.

Prosperously

PROS'PEROUSLY, adverb With gain or increase; successfully.

Prosperousness

PROS'PEROUSNESS, noun The state of being successful; prosperity.

Prospicience

PROSPI'CIENCE, noun [Latin prospiciens.] The act of looking forward.

Prostate

PROS'TATE, adjective [From Gr. to set before.] In anatomy, the prostate gland is a gland situated just before the neck of the bladder in males, and surrounding the beginning of the urethra. It is situated on the under and posterior part of the neck of the bladder, so as to surround the lower side of the urethra.

Prosternation

PROSTERNA'TION, noun [Latin prosterno, to prostrate; pro and sterno.]

A state of being cast down; dejection; depression. [Little used.]

Prosthesis

PROS'THESIS

PROSTHET'IC, adjective [Gr.] Prefixed, as a letter to a word.

Prosthetic

PROSTHET'IC, a. [Gr.] Prefixed, as a letter to a word.

Prostitute

PROS'TITUTE, verb transitive [Latin prostituo; pro and statuo, to set.]

1. To offer freely to a lewd use, or to indiscriminate lewdness.

Do not prostitute thy daughter. Leviticus 19:29.

2. To give up to any vile or infamous purpose; to devote to any thing base; to sell to wickedness; as, to prostitute talents to the propagation of infidel principles, to prostitute the press to the publication of blasphemy.

3. To offer or expose upon vile terms or to unworthy persons.

PROS'TITUTE, adjective Openly devoted to lewdness; sold to wickedness or to infamous purposes.

Made bold by want and prostitute for bread.

PROS'TITUTE, noun A female given to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet.

1. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.

No hireling she, no prostitute to praise.

Prostituted

PROS'TITUTED, participle passive Offered to common lewdness; devoted to base purposes.

Prostituting

PROS'TITUTING, participle present tense Offering to indiscriminate lewdness; devoting to infamous uses.

Prostitution

PROSTITU'TION, noun [Latin prostituo.]

1. The act or practice of offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a female.

2. The act of setting one's self to sale, or offering one's self to infamous employments; as the prostitution of talents or abilities.

Prostitutor

PROS'TITUTOR, noun One who prostitutes; one who submits himself or offers another to vile purposes.

Prostrate

PROS'TRATE, adjective [Latin prostratus, from prosterno, to lay flat; pro and sterno.]

1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface.

Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire.

2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.

3. Lying in the posture of humility of adoration.

PROS'TRATE, verb transitive To lay flat; to throw down; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.

1. To throw down; to overthrow; to demolish; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice; to prostrate the honor of a nation.

2. To prostrate one's self, to throw one's self down or to fall in humility or adoration.

3. To bow in humble reverence.

4. To sink totally; to reduce; as, to prostrate strength.

Prostrated

PROS'TRATED, participle passive Laid at length; laid flat; thrown down; destroyed.

Prostrating

PROS'TRATING, participle present tense Laying flat; throwing down; destroying.

Prostration

PROSTRA'TION, noun The act of throwing down or laying flat; as the prostration of the body, of trees or of corn.

1. The act of falling down, or the act of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but it is now used for kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship.

2. Great depression; dejection; as a prostration of spirits.

3. Great loss of natural strength and vigor; that state of the body in disease in which the system is passive and requires powerful stimulants to excite it into action.

Prostyle

PRO'STYLE, noun [Gr. a column.] In architecture, a range of columns in the front of a temple.

Prosyllogism

PROSYL'LOGISM, noun [pro and syllogism.] A prosyllogism is when two or more syllogisms are so connected that the conclusion of the former is the major or minor of the following.

Protasis

PRO'TASIS, noun [Gr. to present.]

1. A proposition; a maxim.

2. In the ancient drama, the first part of a comic or tragic piece, in which the several persons are shown, their characters intimated, and the subject proposed and entered on. The protasis might extend to two acts, where it ended, and the epitasis commenced.

Protatic

PROTAT'IC, adjective [Gr.] Being placed in the beginning; previous.

Protean

PRO'TEAN, adjective Pertaining to Proteus; readily assuming different shapes. [See Proteus.]

Protect

PROTECT', verb transitive [Latin protectus, protego; pro and tego; to cover; Gr. with a prefix; Eng. deck. See Deck.] To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; a word of general import both in a literal and figurative sense. Walls protect a city or garrison; clothing is designed to protect the body from cold; arms may protect one from an assault; our houses protect us from the inclemencies of the weather; the law protects our persons and property; the father protects his children, and the guardian his ward; a shade protects us from extreme heat; a navy protects our commerce and our shores; embassadors are protected from arrest.

Protected

PROTECT'ED, participle passive Covered or defended from injury; preserved in safety.

Protecting

PROTECT'ING, participle present tense Shielding from injury; defending; preserving in safety.

Protection

PROTEC'TION, noun The act of protecting; defense; shelter from evil; preservation from loss, injury or annoyance. We find protection under good laws and an upright administration. How little are men disposed to acknowledge divine protection!

1. That which protects or preserves from injury.

Let them rise up and help you, and be your protection Deuteronomy 32:38.

2. A writing that protects; a passport or other writing which secures from molestation.

3. Exemption. Embassadors at foreign courts are entitled to protection from arrest. Members of parliament, representatives and senators, are entitled to protection from arrest during their attendance on the legislature, as are suitors and witnesses attending a court.

Writ of protection a writ by which the king or Great Britain exempts a person from arrest.

Protective

PROTECT'IVE, adjective Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.

Protector

PROTECT'OR, noun One that defends or shields from injury, evil or oppression; a defender; a guardian. The king or sovereign is, or ought to be, the protector of the nation; the husband is the protector of his wife, and the father of his children.

1. In England, one who formerly had the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent. Cromwell assumed the title of lord protector

2. In catholic countries, every nation and every religious order has a protector residing at Rome. He is a cardinal, and called cardinal protector

Protectorate

PROTECT'ORATE, noun Government by a protector.

Protectorship

PROTECT'ORSHIP, noun The office of a protector or regent.

Protectress

PROTECT'RESS, noun A woman or female that protects.

Protend

PROTEND', verb transitive [Latin protendo; pro and tendo, to stretch.]

To hold out; to stretch forth.

With his protended lance he makes defense.

Protended

PROTEND'ED, , participle passive Reached or stretched forth.

Protending

PROTEND'ING, participle present tense Stretching forth.

Protense

PROTENSE, noun protens'. Extension. [Not used.]

Protervity

PROTERV'ITY, noun [Latin protervitas, from protervus; pro and torvus, crabbed.] Peevishness; petulance. [Little used.]

Protest

PROTEST', verb intransitive [Latin protestor; pro and testor, to affirm it.]

1. To affirm with solemnity; to make a solemn declaration of a fact or opinion; as, I protest to you, I have no knowledge of the transaction.

2. To make a solemn declaration expressive of opposition; with against; as, he protests against your votes.

The conscience has power to protest against the exorbitancies of the passions.

3. To make a formal declaration in writing against a public law or measure. It is the privilege of any lord in parliament to protest against a law or resolution.

PROTEST', verb transitive To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation.

Fiercely they oppos'd

My journey strange, with clamorous uproar

PROTESTing fate supreme.

1. To prove; to show; to give evidence of. [Not in use.]

2. In commerce, to protest a bill of exchange, is for a notary public, at the request of the payee, to make a formal declaration under hand and seal, against the drawer of the bill, on account of non-acceptance or non-payment, for exchange, cost, commissions, damages and interest; of which act the indorser must be notified within such time as the law or custom prescribes. In like manner, notes of hand given to a banking corporation are protested for non-payment.

PRO'TEST, noun A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly against some act; appropriately, a formal and solemn declaration in writing of dissent from the proceedings of a legislative body; as the protest of lords in parliament, or a like declaration of dissent of any minority against the proceedings of a majority of a body of men.

1. In commerce, a formal declaration made by a notary public, under hand and seal, at the request of the payee or holder of a bill of exchange, for non-acceptance or non-payment of the same, protesting against the drawer and others concerned, for the exchange, charges, damages and interest. This protest is written on a copy of the bill, and notice given to the indorser of the same, by which he becomes liable to pay the amount of the bill, with charges, damages and interest; also, a like declaration against the drawer of a note of hand for non-payment to a banking corporation, and of the master of a vessel against seizure, etc. A protest is also a writing attested by a justice of the peace or consul, drawn by the master of a vessel, stating the severity of the voyage by which the ship has suffered, and showing that the damage suffered was not owing to the neglect or misconduct of the master.

Protestant

PROT'ESTANT, adjective Pertaining to those who, at the reformation of religion, protested against a decree of Charles V. and the diet of Spires; pertaining to the adherents of Luther, or others of the reformed churches; as the protestant religion.

PROT'ESTANT, noun One of the party who adhered to Luther at the reformation in 1529, and protested, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from a decree of the emperor Charles V. and the diet of Spires, and appealed to a general council. This name was afterwards extended to the followers of Calvin, and Protestants is the denomination now given to all who belong to the reformed churches. The king of Prussia has, however, interdicted the use of this name in his dominions.

Protestantism

PROT'ESTANTISM, noun The protestant religion.

Protestantly

PROT'ESTANTLY, adverb In conformity to the protestants. [A very bad word and not used.]

Protestation

PROTESTA'TION, noun

1. A solemn declaration of a fact, opinion or resolution.

2. A solemn declaration of dissent; a protest; as the protestation of certain noblemen against an order of council.

3. In law, a declaration in pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist. The lord may allege the villenage of the plaintiff by way of protestation and thus deny the demand.

Protested

PROTEST'ED, participle passive Solemnly declared or alleged; declared against for non-acceptance or non-payment.

Protester

PROTEST'ER, noun One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration.

1. One who protests a bill of exchange.

Protesting

PROTEST'ING, participle present tense Solemnly declaring or affirming; declaring against for non-acceptance or non-payment.

Proteus

PRO'TEUS, noun [Latin] In mythology, a marine deity, the son of Oceanus and Tethys, whose distinguishing characteristic was the faculty of assuming different shapes. Hence we denominate one who easily changes his form or principles, a proteus

Prothesis

PROTH'ESIS, noun [Gr.] In surgery, the addition of an artificial part to supply a defect of the body; as a wooden leg, etc.

Prothonotariship

PROTHON'OTARISHIP, noun The office of a prothonotary. [An awkward, harsh word and little used.]

Prothonotary

PROTHON'OTARY, noun [Low Latin protonotarius; Gr. first, and Latin notarius, a scribe.]

1. Originally, the chief notary; and anciently, the title of the principal notaries of the emperors of Constantinople. Hence,

2. In England, an officer in the court of king's bench and common pleas. The prothonotary of the king's bench records all civil actions. In the common pleas, the prothonotaries, of which there are three, enter and enroll all declarations, pleadings, judgments, etc., make out judicial writs and exemplifications of records, enter recognizances, etc.

3. In the United States, a register or clerk of a court. The word however is not applied to any officer, except in particular states.

Apostolical prothonotaries, in the court of Rome, are twelve persons constituting a college, who receive the last wills of cardinals, make informations and proceedings necessary for the canonization of saints, etc.

Protocol

PRO'TOCOL, noun [Low Latin protocollum; Gr. first, and glue; so called perhaps from the gluing together of pieces of paper, or from the spreading of it on tablets. It was formerly the upper part of a leaf of a book on which the title or name was written.]

1. The original copy of any writing. [Not now used.]

2. A record or registry.

Protocolist

PRO'TOCOLIST, noun In Russia, a register or clerk.

Protomartyr

PRO'TOM'ARTYR, noun [Gr. first, and martyr.]

1. The first martyr; a term applied to Stephen, the first christian martyr.

2. The first who suffers or is sacrificed in any cause.

Protoplast

PRO'TOPLAST, noun [Gr. first and formed.] The original; the thing first formed, as a copy to be imitated. Thus Adam has been called our protoplast

Protoplastic

PROTOPLAS'TIC, adjective First formed.

Protopope

PRO'TOPOPE, noun [Gr. first, and pope.] Chief pope or imperial confessor, an officer of the holy directing synod, the supreme spiritual court of the Greek church in Russia.

Protosulphate

PROTOSUL'PHATE, noun In chimistry, the combination of sulphuric acid with a protoxyd.

Prototype

PRO'TOTYPE, noun [Gr. first, and type, form, model.]

An original or model after which any thing is formed; the pattern of any thing to be engraved, cast, etc., ; exemplar; archetype.

Protoxyd

PROTOX'YD, noun [Gr. first, and acid.] A substance combined with oxygen in the first degree, or any oxyd formed by the first degree of oxydizement.

Protoxydize

PROTOX'YDIZE, verb transitive To oxydize in the first degree.

Protract

PROTRACT', verb transitive [Latin protractus, from pro and traho, to draw.]

1. To draw out or lengthen in time; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a discussion; to protract a war or a negotiation.

2. To delay; to defer; to put off to a distant time; as, to protract the decision of a question; to protract the final issue.

PROTRACT', noun Tedious continuance. [Not used.]

Protracted

PROTRACT'ED, participle passive Drawn out in time; delayed.

Protracter

PROTRACT'ER, noun One who protracts or lengthens in time.

Protracting

PROTRACT'ING, participle present tense Drawing out or continuing in time; delaying.

Protraction

PROTRAC'TION, noun The act of drawing out or continuing in time; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; as the protraction of a debate.

Protractive

PROTRACT'IVE, adjective Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

He suffered their protractive arts.

Protractor

PROTRACT'OR, noun An instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper with accuracy and dispatch, and by which the use of the line of chords is superseded. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular or circular.

Protreptical

PROTREP'TICAL, adjective [Gr. to exhort; and to turn.] Hortatory; suasory; intended or adapted to persuade. [Little used.]

Protrude

PROTRU'DE, verb transitive [Latin protrudo; pro and trudo, to thrust. See Thrust.]

1. To thrust forward; to drive or force along; as food protruded from the stomach into the intestine.

2. To thrust out, as from confinement. The contents of the abdomen are protruded in hernia.

PROTRU'DE, verb intransitive To shoot forward; to be thrust forward.

The parts protrude beyond the skin.

Protruded

PROTRU'DED, participle passive Thrust forward or out.

Protruding

PROTRU'DING, participle present tense Thrusting forward or out.

Protrusion

PROTRU'SION, noun s as z. The act of thrusting forward or beyond the usual limit; a thrusting or driving; a push.

Protrusive

PROTRU'SIVE, adjective Thrusting or impelling forward; as protrusive motion.

Protuberance

PROTU'BERANCE, noun [Latin protuberans, protubero; pro and tuber, a puff, bunch or knob.] A swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; any thing swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; on the surface on the earth, a hill, knoll or other elevation.

Protuberance differs from projection, being applied to parts that rise from the surface with a gradual ascent or small angle; whereas a projection may be at a right angle with the surface.

Protuberant

PROTU'BERANT, adjective Swelling; prominent beyond the surrounding surface; as a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye.

Protuberate

PROTU'BERATE, verb intransitive [Latin protubero, supra. To swell or be prominent beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out.

If the navel protuberates, make a small puncture with a lancet through the skin.

Protuberation

PROTUBERA'TION, noun The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface.

Protuberous

PROTU'BEROUS, adjective Protuberant.

Proud

PROUD, adjective

1. Having inordinate self-esteem; possessing a high or unreasonable conceit of one's own excellence, either of body or mind. A man may be proud of his person, of his talents, of his accomplishments or of his achievements. He may be proud of any thing to which he bears some relation. He may be proud of his country, his government, his equipage, or of whatever may, by association, gratify his esteem of himself. He may even be proud of his religion or of his church. He conceives that any thing excellent or valuable, in which he has a share, or to which he stands related, contributes to his own importance, and this conception exalts his opinion of himself. proud is followed by of, before the object, supra.

2. Arrogant; haughty; supercilious.

A foe so proud will not the weaker seek.

3. Daring; presumptuous.

By his understanding he smiteth through the proud Job 26:12.

4. Lofty of mien; grand of person; as a proud steed.

5. Grand, lofty; splendid; magnificent.

Storms of stones from the proud temple's height.

6. Ostentatious; grand; as proud titles.

7. Splendid; exhibiting grandeur and distinction; exciting pride; as a proud day for Rome.

8. Excited by the animal appetite; applied particularly to the female of the canine species.

9. Fungous; as proud flesh.

Proudly

PROUD'LY, adverb With an inordinate self-esteem; in a proud manner; haughtily; ostentatiously; with lofty airs or mien.

Proudly he marches on and void of fear.

Provable

PROVABLE, adjective [See Prove.] That may be proved.

Provably

PROVABLY, adverb In a manner capable of proof.

Provand

PRO'VAND, noun Provender. [Not in use.]

Prove

PROVE, verb transitive prov. [Latin probo.]

1. To try; to ascertain some unknown quality or truth by an experiment, or by a test or standard. Thus we prove the strength of gunpowder by experiment; we prove the strength or solidity of cannon by experiment. We prove the contents of a vessel by comparing it with a standard measure.

2. To evince, establish or ascertain as truth, reality or fact, by testimony or other evidence. The plaintiff in a suit, must prove the truth of his declaration; the prosecutor must prove his charges against the accused.

3. To evince truth by argument, induction or reasoning; to deduce certain conclusions from propositions that are true or admitted. If it is admitted that every immoral act is dishonorable to a rational being, and that dueling is an immoral act; then it is proved by necessary inference, that dueling is dishonorable to a rational being.

4. To ascertain the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.

5. To experience; to try by suffering or encountering; to gain certain knowledge by the operation of something on ourselves, or by some act of our own.

Let him in arms the power of Turnus prove

6. In arithmetic, to show, evince or ascertain the correctness of any operation or result. Thus in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved. In other words, if the sum of the remainder and of the subtrahend, is equal to the minuend, the operation of subtraction is proved to be correct.

7. To try; to examine.

PROVE your own selves. 2 Corinthians 13:5.

8. Men prove God, when by their provocations they put his patience to trial, Psalms 95:9; or when by obedience they make trial how much he will countenance such conduct, Malachi 3:10.

PROVE, verb intransitive To make trial; to essay.

The sons prepare--

To prove by arms whose fate it was to reign.

1. To be found or to have its qualities ascertained by experience or trial; as, a plant or medicine proves salutary.

2. To be ascertained by the event or something subsequent; as the report proves to be true, or proves to be false.

3. To be found true or correct by the result.

4. To make certain; to show; to evince.

This argument proves how erroneous is the common opinion.

5. To succeed.

If the experiment proved not--

[Not in use.]

Proved

PROVED, participle passive Tried; evinced; experienced.

Proveditor

PROVED'ITOR

PROVEDO'RE, noun A purveyor; one employed to procure supplies for an army.

Proveditor, in Venice and other parts of Italy, is an officer who superintends matters of policy.

Provedore

PROVEDO'RE, n. A purveyor; one employed to procure supplies for an army.

Proveditor, in Venice and other parts of Italy, is an officer who superintends matters of policy.

Proven

PROVEN, a word used by Socttish writers for proved.

Provencial

PROVEN'CIAL, adjective Pertaining to Provence, in France.

Provender

PROV'ENDER, noun [Latin vivo, to live, and from vivanda; Eng.viand.]

1. Dry food for beasts, usually meal, or a mixture of meal and cut straw or hay. In a more general sense, it may signify dry food of any kind.

2. Provisions; meat; food.

[Not used of food for man in New England.]

Prover

PROVER, noun One that proves or tries; that which proves.

Proverb

PROV'ERB, noun [Latin proverbium; pro and verbum, a word.]

1. A short sentence often repeated, expressing a well known truth or common fact, ascertained by experience or observation; a maxim of wisdom.

The proverb is true, that light gains make heavy purses, for light gains come often, great gains now and then.

2. A by-word; a name often repeated; and hence frequently, a reproach or object of contempt. Jeremiah 24:9.

3. In Scripture, it sometimes signifies a moral sentence or maxim that is enigmatical; a dark saying of the wise that requires interpretation. Proverbs 1:6.

4. Proverbs, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing a great variety of wise maxims, rich in practical truths and excellent rules for the conduct of all classes of men.

PROV'ERB, verb transitive To mention in a proverb [Not in use.]

1. To provide with a proverb [Not in use.]

Proverbial

PROVERB'IAL, adjective Mentioned in a proverb; as a proverbial cure or remedy.

In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst in the world.

1. Comprised in a proverb; used or current as a proverb; as a proverbial saying or speech.

2. Pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb; suitable to a proverb; as a proverbial obscurity.

Proverbialist

PROVERB'IALIST, noun One who speaks proverbs.

Proverbialize

PROVERB'IALIZE, verb transitive To make a proverb; to turn into a proverb, or to use proverbially. [Unusual.]

Proverbially

PROVERB'IALLY, adverb In a proverb; as, it is proverbially said.

Provide

PROVI'DE, verb transitive [Latin provideo, literally to see before; pro and video, to see.]

1. To procure beforehand; to get, collect or make ready for future use; to prepare.

Abraham said, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering. Genesis 22:8.

Provide neither gold nor silver nor brass in your purses. Matthew 10:9.

Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Romans 12:17.

2. To furnish; to supply; followed by with.

Rome, by the care of the magistrates, was well provided with corn.

Provided of is now obsolete.

3. To stipulate previously. The agreement provides that the party shall incur no loss.

4. To make a previous conditional stipulation. [See Provided.]

5. To foresee; a Latinism. [Not in use.]

6. provide in a transitive sense, is followed by against or for. We provide warm clothing against the inclemencies of the weather; we provide necessaries against a time of need; or we provide warm clothing for winter, etc.

PROVI'DE, verb intransitive To procure supplies or means of defense; or to take measures for counteracting or escaping an evil. The sagacity of brutes in providing against the inclemencies of the weather is wonderful.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Provided

PROVI'DED, participle passive Procured beforehand; made ready for future use; supplied; furnished; stipulated.

1. Stipulated as a condition, which condition is expressed in the following sentence or words; as, 'provided that nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever.' This sentence is in the nature of the case absolute, the clause or sentence independent; 'this or that being provided which follows; ' 'this condition being provided ' The word being is understood, and the participle provided agrees with the whole sentence absolute. 'This condition being previously stipulated or established.' This and that here refer to the whole member of the sentence.

Providence

PROV'IDENCE, noun [Latin providentia.]

1. The act of providing or preparing for future use or application.

Providence for war is the best prevention of it. [Now little used.]

2. Foresight; timely care; particularly, active foresight, or foresight accompanied with the procurement of what is necessary for future use, or with suitable preparation. How many of the troubles and perplexities of life proceed from want of providence!

3. In theology, the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures. He that acknowledges a creation and denies a providence involves himself in a palpable contradiction; for the same power which caused a thing to exist is necessary to continue its existence. Some persons admit a general providence but deny a particular providence not considering that a general providence consists of particulars. A belief in divine providence is a source of great consolation to good men. By divine providence is often understood God himself.

4. Prudence in the management of one's concerns or in private economy.