Prognosis
Prog‐no″sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �, fr. � to know beforehand; � before + � to know. See Know.] (Med.) The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Prognostic
Prog‐nos″tic (?), a. [Gr. �. See Prognosis.] Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; progno...
Prognostic (2)
Prog‐nos″tic, n. [L. prognosticum, Gr. �: cf. F. pronostic, prognostic. See Prognostic, a.]1. That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold;...
Prognostic (3)
Prog‐nos″tic, v. t. To prognosticate.
Prognosticable
Prog‐nos″tic‐a‐ble (?), a. Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
Prognosticate
Prog‐nos″ti‐cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Prognosticated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Prognosticating.] [See Prognostic.] To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to pro...
Prognostication
Prog‐nos′ti‐ca″tion (?), n. [Cf. F. prognostication.]1. The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.2. That which foreshows; a foretoken....
Prognosticator
Prog‐nos″ti‐ca′tor (?), n. One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.
Program
Pro″gram (?), n. Same as Programme.
Programma
‖Pro‐gram″ma (?), n.; pl.Programmata (#). [L. See Programme.]1. (Gr. Antiq.) Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection...
Programme
Pro″gramme (?), n. [L. programma a public proclamation, manifesto, Gr. �, fr. � to write before or in public; � before, forth + � to write; cf. F. programme. See Graphic.] That ...
Progress
Prog″ress (?; 277), n. [L. progressus, from progredi, p. p. progressus, to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. progrès. See Grade.]1. A moving or going ...
Progress (2)
Pro‐gress″ (?; formerly pronounced likeProgress, n.), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Progressed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Progressing.]1. To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue o...
Progress (3)
Prog″ress (?; see Progress, v. i.), v. t. To make progress in; to pass through. Milton.
Progression
Pro‐gres″sion (?), n. [L. progressio: cf. F. progression.]1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.2. Course; passage; lapse or process of time.I ho...
Progressional
Pro‐gres″sion‐al (?), a. Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
Progressionist
Pro‐gres″sion‐ist, n.1. One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection.2. One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; — opposed to...
Progressist
Prog″ress‐ist (?), n. One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
Progressive
Pro‐gress″ive (?), a. [Cf. F. progressif.]1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; — opposed to retrogra...
Progressive (2)
Pro‐gress″ive, a.(U. S. Politics) Of or pertaining to the Progressive party.
Progressive party
Progressive party. (U. S. Politics) The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912....
Progue
Progue (?), v. i. To prog. P. Fletcher.
Progue (2)
Progue, n. A sharp point; a goad. — v. t. To prick; to goad..
Proheme
Pro″heme (?), n. Proem. Chaucer.
Prohibit
Pro‐hib″it (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Prohibited; p. pr. & vb. n.Prohibiting.] [L. prohibitus, p. p. of prohibere to prohibit; pro before, forth + habere to have, hold. See Habit.]...
Prohibiter
Pro‐hib″it‐er (?), n. One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.
Prohibition
Pro′hi‐bi″tion (?), n. [L. prohibitio: cf. F. prohibition.]1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.The law of God, in the ten co...