Webster's Dictionary 1828

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PROSPERED

PROS'PERED, participle passive Having success; favored.

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PROSPERING

PROS'PERING, participle present tense Rendering successful; advancing in growth, wealth or any good.

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PROSPERITY

PROSPER'ITY, noun [Latin prosperitas.] Advance or gain in any thing good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; success; attainment of the object desir...

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PROSPEROUS

PROS'PEROUS, adjective [Latin prosperus.] Advancing in the pursuit of any thing desirable; making gain or increase; thriving; successful; as a prosperous trade; a prosperous voy...

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PROSPEROUSLY

PROS'PEROUSLY, adverb With gain or increase; successfully.

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PROSPEROUSNESS

PROS'PEROUSNESS, noun The state of being successful; prosperity.

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PROSPICIENCE

PROSPI'CIENCE, noun [Latin prospiciens.] The act of looking forward.

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PROSTATE

PROS'TATE, adjective [From Gr. to set before.] In anatomy, the prostate gland is a gland situated just before the neck of the bladder in males, and surrounding the beginning of ...

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PROSTERNATION

PROSTERNA'TION, noun [Latin prosterno, to prostrate; pro and sterno.]A state of being cast down; dejection; depression. [Little used.]

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PROSTHESIS

PROS'THESISPROSTHET'IC, adjective [Gr.] Prefixed, as a letter to a word.

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PROSTHETIC

PROSTHET'IC, a. [Gr.] Prefixed, as a letter to a word.

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PROSTITUTE

PROS'TITUTE, verb transitive [Latin prostituo; pro and statuo, to set.]1. To offer freely to a lewd use, or to indiscriminate lewdness.Do not prostitute thy daughter. Leviticus ...

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PROSTITUTED

PROS'TITUTED, participle passive Offered to common lewdness; devoted to base purposes.

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PROSTITUTING

PROS'TITUTING, participle present tense Offering to indiscriminate lewdness; devoting to infamous uses.

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PROSTITUTION

PROSTITU'TION, noun [Latin prostituo.]1. The act or practice of offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a female.2. The act of setting on...

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PROSTITUTOR

PROS'TITUTOR, noun One who prostitutes; one who submits himself or offers another to vile purposes.

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PROSTRATE

PROS'TRATE, adjective [Latin prostratus, from prosterno, to lay flat; pro and sterno.]1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface.Groveling and ...

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PROSTRATED

PROS'TRATED, participle passive Laid at length; laid flat; thrown down; destroyed.

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PROSTRATING

PROS'TRATING, participle present tense Laying flat; throwing down; destroying.

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PROSTRATION

PROSTRA'TION, noun The act of throwing down or laying flat; as the prostration of the body, of trees or of corn.1. The act of falling down, or the act of bowing in humility or a...

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PROSTYLE

PRO'STYLE, noun [Gr. a column.] In architecture, a range of columns in the front of a temple.

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PROSYLLOGISM

PROSYL'LOGISM, noun [pro and syllogism.] A prosyllogism is when two or more syllogisms are so connected that the conclusion of the former is the major or minor of the following.

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PROTASIS

PRO'TASIS, noun [Gr. to present.]1. A proposition; a maxim.2. In the ancient drama, the first part of a comic or tragic piece, in which the several persons are shown, their char...

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PROTATIC

PROTAT'IC, adjective [Gr.] Being placed in the beginning; previous.

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PROTEAN

PRO'TEAN, adjective Pertaining to Proteus; readily assuming different shapes. [See Proteus.]

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PROTECT

PROTECT', verb transitive [Latin protectus, protego; pro and tego; to cover; Gr. with a prefix; Eng. deck. See Deck.] To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to gua...

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PROTECTED

PROTECT'ED, participle passive Covered or defended from injury; preserved in safety.