PRODIGALIZE
PROD'IGALIZE, verb intransitive To be extravagant in expenditures. [Not used.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PRODIGALLY
PROD'IGALLY, adverb With profusion of expenses; extravagantly; lavishly; wastefully; as an estate prodigally dissipated.1. With liberal abundance; profusely.Nature not bounteous...
PRODIGIOUS
PRODIG'IOUS, adjective [Latin prodigiosus. See Prodigy.]1. Very great; huge; enormous in size, quantity, extent, etc.; as a mountain of prodigious size or altitude; a prodigious...
PRODIGIOUSLY
PRODIG'IOUSLY, adverb Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as a number prodigiously great.1. Very much; extremely; in familiar language. He was prodigiously pleased.
PRODIGIOUSNESS
PRODIG'IOUSNESS, noun Enormousness of size; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment.
PRODIGY
PROD'IGY, noun [Latin prodigium, from prodigo, to shoot out, drive out, properly to spread to a great extent.1. Any thing out of the ordinary process of nature, as so extraordin...
PRODITION
PRODI'TION, noun [Latin proditio, form prodo, to betray; supposed to be compounded of pro and do, to give.] Treachery; treason.
PRODITOR
PROD'ITOR, noun [Latin] A traitor. [Not in use.]
PRODITORIOUS
PRODITO'RIOUS, adjective Treacherous; perfidious; traitorous. [Not in use.]1. Apt to make discoveries or disclosures. [Not in use.]
PRODITORY
PROD'ITORY, adjective Treacherous; perfidious.
PRODROME
PRO'DROME, noun [Gr. to run.] A forerunner. [Not in use.]
PRODUCE
PRODU'CE, verb transitive [Latin produco; pro and duco, to lead or draw.]1. To bring forward; to bring or offer to view or notice; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court....
PRODUCED
PRODU'CED, participle passive Brought into life, being or view; yielded.
PRODUCEMENT
PRODU'CEMENT, noun Production. [Not used.]
PRODUCENT
PRODU'CENT, noun One that exhibits or offers to view or notice. [Not much used.]
PRODUCER
PRODU'CER, noun One that generates; one that produces.
PRODUCIBILITY
PRODUCIBIL'ITY, noun The power or producing. [Not used.]
PRODUCIBLE
PRODU'CIBLE, adjective1. That may be brought into being; that may be generated or made; as producible salts.2. That may be brought into view or notice; that may be exhibited.
PRODUCIBLENESS
PRODU'CIBLENESS, noun The state or quality of being producible; as the producibleness of salts.
PRODUCING
PRODU'CING, participle present tense Generating; bringing into existence or notice.
PRODUCT
PROD'UCT, noun [Latin productus, from produco.]1. That which is produced by nature, as fruits, grain, metals; as the product of land; the products of the season.2. That which is...
PRODUCTILE
PRODUC'TILE, adjective That may be extended in length.
PRODUCTION
PRODUC'TION, noun [Latin productio.]1. The act or process of producing, bringing forth or exhibiting to view.2. That which is produced or made; as the productions of the earth, ...
PRODUCTIVE
PRODUC'TIVE, adjective1. Having the power of producing; as, productive labor is that which increases the number or amount of products; opposed to unproductive labor. The labor o...
PRODUCTIVENESS
PRODUC'TIVENESS, noun The quality of being productive; as the productiveness of land or labor.
PROEM
PRO'EM, noun [Latin proemium; Gr. before, and way.] Preface; introduction; preliminary observations to a book or writing.PRO'EM, verb transitive To preface. [Not used.]
PROEMIAL
PROE'MIAL, adjective Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.