PROLIFICACY
PROLIF'ICACY, n. Fruitfulness; great productiveness.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PROLIFICAL
PROLIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin proles, offspring, and facio, to make.]1. Producing young or fruit; fruitful; generative; productive; applied to animals and plants; as a prolific ...
PROLIFICALLY
PROLIF'ICALLY, adverb Fruitfully; with great increase.
PROLIFICATION
PROLIFICA'TION, noun [See Prolific.] The generation of young or of plants.1. In botany, the production of a second flower from the substance of the first. This is either from th...
PROLIFICNESS
PROLIF'ICNESS, noun The state of being prolific.
PROLIX
PROLIX, adjective [Latin prolixus; pro and laxus, literally drawn out.]1. Long; extended to a great length; minute in narration or argument; applied only to discourses, speeches...
PROLIXITY
PROLIX'ITYPROLIX'LY, adverb At great length.
PROLIXLY
PROLIX'LY, adv. At great length.
PROLIXNESS
PROLIX'NESS, noun Great length; minute detail; applied only to discourses and writings. Prolixity is not always tedious.
PROLOCUTOR
PROLOC'UTOR, noun [Latin proloquor; pro and loquor, to speak.]The speaker or chairman of a convocation.
PROLOCUTORSHIP
PROLOC'UTORSHIP, noun The office of station of a prolocutor.
PROLOGIZE
PRO'LOGIZE, verb intransitive To deliver a prologue. [Not in use.]
PROLOGUE
PROLOGUE, noun pro'log. [Latin prologue; Gr. discourse.]The preface or introduction to a discourse, or performance, chiefly the discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic perfor...
PROLONG
PROLONG', verb transitive [Latin pro and longus. See Long.]1. To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of. Temperate habits tend to prolong life.2. To lengthen; to draw out i...
PROLONGATE
PROLON'GATE, verb transitive To extend or lengthen in space; as, to prolongate a line.1. To extend in time. [Little used.]
PROLONGATED
PROLON'GATED, participle passive Extended in space; continued in length.
PROLONGATING
PROLON'GATING, participle present tense Lengthening in space.
PROLONGATION
PROLONGA'TION, noun The act of lengthening in time or space; as the prolongation of life.The prolongation of a line.1. Extension of time by delay or postponement; as the prolong...
PROLONGED
PROLONG'ED, participle passive Lengthened in duration or space.
PROLONGER
PROLONG'ER, noun He or that which lengthens in time or space.
PROLONGING
PROLONG'ING, participle present tense Extending in time; continuing in length.
PROLUSION
PROLU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin prolusio, proludo; pro and ludo, to play.] A prelude; entertainment; diverting performance. [Little used.]
PROMENADE
PROMENA'DE, noun1. A walk for amusement or exercise.2. A place for walking.
PROMERIT
PROMER'IT, verb transitive [Latin promereo, promeritum; pro and mereo, to merit.]1. To oblige; to confer a favor on.2. To deserve; to procure by merit.[This word is little used ...
PROMETHEAN
PROMETHE'AN, adjective Pertaining to Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven.
PROMINENCE
PROM'INENCEPROM'INENCY, noun [Latin prominentia, from promineo; pro and minor, to menace, that is, to shoot forward.] A standing out from the surface of something, or that which...
PROMINENCY
PROM'INENCY, n. [L.prominentia, from promineo; pro and minor, to menace, that is, to shoot forward.] A standing out from the surface of something, or that which juts out; protub...