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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Prŏf'lu-ence, n. p. 1044The quality or act of being profluent; forward flow; course. [Obs.] Walton.Prŏf'lu-ent, a. p. 1044Flowing forward. “In the profluent stream.” Milton.Pro-found', a. p. 1044Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. “A gulf profound.” Milton. 2. Low bending; very low; lowly; humble; as, a profound bow. 3. Characterized by intensity…Pro-found', n. p. 1044The deep; the abyss. “Through the blue profound.” Wordsworth. 2. Especially, the sea; the ocean. God in the fathomless profound Hath all his choice commanders drowned. Sandys.Pro-found', v. i. p. 1044To dive deeply; to penetrate. [Obs.] Glanville.Pro-found', v. t. p. 1044To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down. [Obs.] Browne.Pro-found'ly, adv. p. 1044In a profound manner; deeply. Why sigh you so profoundly? Shak. 2. With deep penetration, knowledge, or insight; as, profoundly wise; profoundly skilled in music or painting.Pro-found'ness, n. p. 1044The quality of being profound; profundity; depth.Pro-fŭl'gent, a. p. 1044Shining forth; blazing out; brilliant; effulgent. [Obs.] Chaucer.Pro-fûn'di-ty, n. p. 1044Condition or quality of being profound; depth of place, of knowledge, of science, of feeling, or the like. “The vast profundity obscure.” Milton.Pro-fūse', a. p. 1044Pouring forth with fulness or exuberance; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; lavish; as, a profuse government; a profuse administration. “A green shady bank, profuse of flowers.” Milton. 2.…Pro-fūse′, v. t. p. 1044To pour out; to lavish. [Obs.] Thy help hath been profused Ever with most grace in consorts of travelers distressed. Chapman. 2. To squander. [Rare.] Steele.Pro-fūse'ly, adv. p. 1044In a profuse manner; lavishly; prodigally; as, an income profusely expended. 2. With exuberance; with great abundance; as, ornaments may be too profusely scattered over a building.Pro-fūse’ness, n. p. 1044Extravagant expenditures; lavishness; prodigality. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury. 2. Great abundance; profusion; as, profuseness of ornaments.Pro-fū’sion, n. p. 1044The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without stint; prodigality; extravagance of expenditures. What meant thy pompous progress through the empire, Thy vast profusion to the…Pro-fū'sive, a. p. 1044Profuse; lavish; prodigal. [Obs.]Prŏg, v. i. p. 1044To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek to acquire by beggarly tricks; to strive after by shifts. “Pandulf, an Italian and pope’s legate, a perfect artist in…Prŏg, n. p. 1044Victuals or provisions sought by begging, or found by wandering about; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. [Low.] Swift.Prŏg, n. p. 1044One who seeks his victuals by wandering and begging.Pro-gĕn'er-āte, v. t. p. 1044To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate. [Rare.] “To progenerate a more numerous and better race.” Landor.Pro-gĕn'er-ā'tion, n. p. 1044The act of begetting; propagation. [Obs.]Pro-gĕn'i-tor, n. p. 1044An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather. “And reverence thee their great progenitor.” Milton.Pro-gĕn'i-tūre, n. p. 1044A begetting or birth. [Rare.]Prŏg'e-ny, n. p. 1044Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; offspring; race; children. “Issued from the progeny of kings.” Shak.Prog-nā′thĭsm, n. p. 1044Projection of the lower jaw.Prog-nā'thoüs, a. p. 1044Having, or characterized by, projecting jaws. Their countenances had the true prognathous character. Kane.Prog-nō'sis, n. p. 1044(Med.) The act or art of foretelling the course and event of a disease; the judgment of the course and event of a disease by particular symptoms. Coxe.Prog-nōs'tic, a. p. 1044Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.Prog·nōs'tic, n. p. 1044That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; hence, a foretelling; a prediction. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of…Prog-nōs'tie, v. t. p. 1044To prognosticate. [Obs.]Prog-nŏs'ti-ca-ble, a. p. 1044Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Browne.Prog-nŏs’tĭ-cāte, v. t. p. 1044To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to foreshow; to predict. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden. Syn.—To foreshow…Prog-nōs'ti-cā'tion, n. p. 1044The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs. 2. That which foreshows; a foretoken; previous sign. Shak.Prog·nŏs'ti·cā'tor, n. p. 1044One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.Prō'gram, n. p. 1044The same as PROGRAMME, q. v. [Rare.]Pro-grăm'mȧ, n. p. 1044(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. 2.…Prō'grămme, n. p. 1044That which is written beforehand, as a public notice or advertisement; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise…Prŏg'ress, n. p. 1044A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; as, (a.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, &c. (b.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase. (c.) In knowledge…Pro-grēss', v. i. p. 1044To make progress; to move forward in space; to pass; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on. Let me wipe off this honorable dew That silvery doth progress on thy cheeks. Shak.…Prōg'ress, v. t. p. 1044To advance in. [Obs.] Milton.Pro·grēs'sion, n. p. 1044The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse or process of time. I hope, in a short progression, you will be wholly immersed in the delices and joys…Pro-grès'sion-al, a. p. 1045Tending to progress; having capacity of advancing; relating to progression.Pro-grĕs'sion-ĭst, n. p. 1045One who holds to the progression of society toward perfection.Prŏg'ress-ĭst, n. p. 1045One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.Pro-grĕss'ĭve, a. p. 1045Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; as, progressive motion or course; — opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, the arts are in a progressive state.Pro-grĕss'ĭve-ly, adv. p. 1045In a progressive manner; with progress.Pro-grĕss'ĭve-ness, n. p. 1045State or quality of being progressive; an advancing; state of improvement; as, the progressiveness of science, arts, or taste.Prōgue, v. i. p. 1045To steal; to filch; to prog. [Obs.] See PROG. Beau. & Fl.Pro-hĭb'it, v. t. p. 1045To forbid; to interdict by authority; as, God prohibited Adam to eat of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person to do a thing, and we prohibit the thing to be done. 2. To hinder; to debar…Pro-hĭb'it-er, n. p. 1045One who prohibits or forbids; a forhibiter; an interdictor.Prō/hi-bi'tion, n. p. 1045The 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.”…Prō/hi-bi'tion-ist, n. p. 1045One who favors prohibitory duties in commerce.Pro-hĭb'it-ive or Pro-hĭb'it-o-ry, a. p. 1045Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; forbidding; implying prohibition.Proin, v. t. p. 1045To lop; to trim; to prune. [Obs.] The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms. Chapman.Proin, v. i. p. 1045To be employed in pruning. [Obs.]Pro·ject′, v. t. p. 1045To throw out; to cast or shoot forward. The ascending villas Project long shadows o’er the crystal tide. Pope. 2. To cast forward in the mind; to scheme; to contrive; to devise; as, to project a plan…Pro-jĕct′, v. i. p. 1045To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to jut; to be prominent; as, the cornice projects. 2. To form a project; to scheme. [Rare.] About this time John Dudley . . . projected for the…Prŏj'ect, n. p. 1045The place from which a thing projects or starts forth. [Obs.] Holland. 2. That which is projected or designed; a scheme; a design; something intended or devised; contrivance. He entered into the…Pro·ject′ile, a. p. 1045Impelling forward; as, a projectile force. 2. Given by impulse; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. Arbuthnot.Pro-jĕct′ile, n. p. 1045A body projected, or impelled forward, by force, especially through the air, as a cannon-ball. 2. (pl.) (Mech.) A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, &c., of bodies…