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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pro-grăm'mȧ, n.

noun

Pro-grăm'mȧ, n. [See infra.] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection, previously to its being proposed to the general assembly of the people. Crabb.

  1. (Rom. Antiq.) An edict published for the purpose of making known whatever concerned the welfare of the state. Crabb.
  2. The same as PROGRAMME.
  3. That which is written before something else; a preface. [Obs.] Warton.