Webster's Dictionary 1828

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PROHIBITION

PROHIBI'TION, noun [Latin prohibitio.]1. The act of forbidding or interdicting; a declaration to hinder some action; interdict.The law of God in the ten commandments consists mo...

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PROHIBITIVE

PROHIB'ITIVEPROHIB'ITORY, adjective Forbidding; implying prohibition.

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PROHIBITORY

PROHIB'ITORY, a. Forbidding; implying prohibition.

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PROIN

PROIN, verb transitive To lop; to trim; to prune. [See Prune.]PROIN, verb intransitive To be employed in pruning.

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PROJECT

PROJECT', verb transitive [Latin projicio; pro, forward, and jacio, to throw.]1. To throw out; to cast or shoot forward.Th' ascending villasPROJECT long shadows o'er the crystal...

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PROJECTED

PROJECT'ED, participle passive Cast out or forward; schemed; devised; delineated.

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PROJECTILE

PROJECT'ILE, adjective Impelling forward; as a projectile force.1. Given by impulse; impelled forward; as projectile motion.PROJECT'ILE, noun A body projected, or impelled forwa...

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PROJECTING

PROJECT'ING, participle present tense Throwing out or forward; shooting out; jutting; scheming; contriving.

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PROJECTION

PROJEC'TION, noun [Latin projectio.] The act of throwing or shooting forward.1. A jutting out; extension beyond something else.2. The act of scheming; plan; scheme; design of so...

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PROJECTMENT

PROJECT'MENT, noun Design; contrivance. [Little used.]

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PROJECTOR

PROJECT'OR, noun One who forms a scheme or design.1. One who forms wild or impracticable schemes.

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PROJECTURE

PROJECT'URE, noun A jutting or standing out beyond the line or surface of something else.

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PROLAPSE

PROLAPSE, noun prolaps'. [Latin prolapsus, prolabor.]A falling down or falling out of some part of the body, as of the uterus or intestines.PROLAPSE, verb intransitive prolaps'....

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PROLAPSION

PROLAP'SIONPROLAP'SUS, [See Prolapse.]

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PROLAPSUS

PROLAP'SUS, [See Prolapse.]

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PROLATE

PROLA'TE, verb transitive [Latin prolatum, profero.]To utter; to pronounce. [Not used.]PRO'LATE, adjective [supra.] Extended beyond the line of an exact sphere. A prolate spheri...

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PROLATION

PROLA'TION, noun [Latin prolatio, from profero.]Utterance; pronunciation. [Little used.]1. Delay; act of deferring. [Not used.]2. A method in music of determining the power of s...

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PROLEGOMENA

PROLEGOM'ENA, nounplural [Gr. to speak.] Preliminary observations; introductory remarks or discourses prefixed to a book or treatise.

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PROLEPSIS

PROLEP'SISPROLEP'SY, noun [Gr. to take.]1. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented.2. An error in chronology, when an event is dated ...

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PROLEPSY

PROLEP'SY, n. [Gr. to take.]1. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented.2. An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the a...

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PROLEPTIC

PROLEP'TICPROLEP'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation.1. Previous; antecedent.2. In medicine, anticipating the usual time; applied to a periodical disease, w...

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PROLEPTICAL

PROLEP'TICAL, a. Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation.1. Previous; antecedent.2. In medicine, anticipating the usual time; applied to a periodical disease, whose paroxysm ret...

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PROLEPTICALLY

PROLEP'TICALLY, adverb By way of anticipation.

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PROLETARIAN

PROLETA'RIAN, adjective [Latin proletarius, from proles, offspring.]vile; vulgar. [Not used.]

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PROLETARY

PRO'LETARY, noun A common person. [Not used.]

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PROLIFEROUS

PROLIF'EROUS, adjective [infra.] In botany, prolific; as a proliferous flower.A proliferous stem is one which puts forth branches only from the center of the top, or which shoot...

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PROLIFIC

PROLIF'ICPROLIF'ICACY, noun Fruitfulness; great productiveness.