Webster's Dictionary 1828

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PROFUSENESS

PROFU'SENESS, noun Lavishness; prodigality; extravagant expenditures.Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness1. Great abundance; profusion; as profuseness of ornaments.

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PROFUSION

PROFU'SION, s. s as z. [Latin profusio.]1. Lavishness; prodigality; extravagance of expenditures; as, to waste an estate by profusionWhat meant thy pompous progress through the ...

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PROG

PROG, verb intransitive [Latin proco, procor.]1. To shift meanly for provisions; to wander about and seek provisions where they are to be found; to live by beggarly tricks. [A l...

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PROGENERATE

PROGEN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin progenero.] To beget. [Not in use.]

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PROGENERATION

PROGENERA'TION, noun The act of begetting; propagation. [Not used.]

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PROGENITOR

PROGEN'ITOR, noun [Latin from progigno; pro and gigno, to beget.]An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.Adam was the progenitor of the human race.

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PROGENITURE

PROGEN'ITURE, noun A begetting or birth. [Little used.]

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PROGENY

PROG'ENY, noun [Latin progenies, from progignor.] Offspring; race; children; descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; as the progeny of a king; the progeny ...

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PROGNOSIS

PROGNO'SIS, noun [Gr. to know before.] In medicine, the art of foretelling the event of a disease; the judgment of the event of a disease by particular symptoms.

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PROGNOSTIC

PROGNOS'TIC, adjective Foreshowing; indicating something future by signs or symptoms; as the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.PROGNOS'TIC, noun In medicine, th...

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PROGNOSTICABLE

PROGNOS'TICABLE, adjective That may be foreknown or foretold.

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PROGNOSTICATE

PROGNOS'TICATE, verb transitive [from prognostic.]1. To foreshow; to indicate a future event by present signs. A clear sky at sunset prognosticates a fair day.2. To foretell by ...

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PROGNOSTICATED

PROGNOS'TICATED, participle passive Foreshown; foretold.

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PROGNOSTICATING

PROGNOS'TICATING, participle present tense Foreshowing; foretelling.

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PROGNOSTICATION

PROGNOSTICA'TION, noun The act of foreshowing a future event by present signs.1. The act of foretelling an event by present signs.2. A foretoken; previous sign.

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PROGNOSTICATOR

PROGNOS'TICATOR, noun A foreknower or foreteller of a future event by present signs.

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PROGRAMMA

PROGRAM'MA, noun [Gr. to write previously; to write.]1. Anciently, a letter sealed with the king's seal.2. In a university, a billet or advertisement to invite persons to an ora...

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PROGRESS

PROG'RESS, noun [Latin progressus, progedior; pro and gradior, to step or go. See Grade and Degree.]1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward. A man makes a slow progres...

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PROGRESSION

PROGRES'SION, noun [Latin progressio, progredior.]1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onwards.2. Intellectual advance; as the progression of thought.3...

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PROGRESSIONAL

PROGRES'SIONAL, adjective That advances; that is in a state of advance.

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PROGRESSIVE

PROGRESS'IVE, adjective Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; as progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.1. Improving. The arts are in a progressive state.

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PROGRESSIVELY

PROGRESS'IVELY, adverb By motion onward; by regular advances.

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PROGRESSIVENESS

PROGRESS'IVENESS, noun The state of moving forward; an advancing; state of improvement; as the progressiveness of science, arts or taste.

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PROHIBIT

PROHIB'IT, verb transitive [Latin prohibeo; pro and habeo, to hold.]1. To forbid; to interdict by authority; applicable to persons or things, but implying authority or right. Go...

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PROHIBITED

PROHIB'ITED, participle passive Forbid; interdicted; hindered.

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PROHIBITER

PROHIB'ITER, noun One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.

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PROHIBITING

PROHIB'ITING, participle present tense Forbidding; interdicting; debarring.