PROSCRIPTIVE
PROSCRIP'TIVE, adjective Pertaining to or consisting in proscription; proscribing.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PROSE
PROSE, noun s as z. [Latin prosa.]1. The natural language of man; language loose and unconfined to poetical measure, as opposed to verse or metrical composition.Things unattempt...
PROSECUTE
PROS'ECUTE, verb transitive [Latin prosecutus, prosequor; pro and sequor, to follow; Eng. to seed. See Essay.]1. To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute or accomplish;...
PROSECUTED
PROS'ECUTED, participle passive Pursued, or begun and carried on for execution or accomplishment, as a scheme; pursued for redress or punishment in a court of law, as a person; ...
PROSECUTING
PROS'ECUTING, participle present tense Pursuing, or beginning and carrying on for accomplishment; pursuing for redress or punishment; suing for, as a right or claim.
PROSECUTION
PROSECU'TION, noun The act or process of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design or underta...
PROSECUTOR
PROS'ECUTOR, noun One who pursues or carries on any purpose, plan or business.1. The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit in a legal tribunal, or one who exhibit...
PROSELYTE
PROS'ELYTE, noun [Gr. to come.] A new convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system or party. Thus a Gentile converted to Judaism is a prosel...
PROSELYTISM
PROS'ELYTISM, noun The making of converts to a religion or religious sect, or to any opinion, system or party.They were possessed with a spirit of proselytism in the most fanati...
PROSELYTIZE
PROS'ELYTIZE, to make converts, or to convert, is not well authorized, or not in common use, and is wholly unnecessary.
PROSEMINATION
PROSEMINA'TION, noun [Latin proseminatus; pro and semino, to sow.]Propagation by seed. [Not used.]
PROSENNEAHEDRAL
PROSENNEAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr.] In crystalography, having nine faces on two adjacent parts of the crystal.
PROSER
PRO'SER, noun s as z. [from prose.] A writer of prose.1. In cant language, one who makes a tedious narration of uninteresting matters.
PROSODIAL
PROSO'DIALPROSO'DIAN, noun [from prosody.] One skilled in prosody or in the rules of pronunciation and metrical composition.
PROSODIAN
PROSO'DIAN, n. [from prosody.] One skilled in prosody or in the rules of pronunciation and metrical composition.
PROSODICAL
PROSOD'ICAL, adjective [from prosody.] Pertaining to prosody or the quantity and accents of syllables; according to the rules of prosody.
PROSODIST
PROS'ODIST, noun [from prosody.] One who understands prosody.
PROSODY
PROS'ODY, noun [Latin prosodia; Gr. an ode.] That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification. It includes also the ar...
PROSOPOLEPSY
PROSOPOLEP'SY, noun [Gr.] Respect of persons; more particularly, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed by a view of his external appearance.
PROSOPOPEIA
PROSOPOPE'IAPROS'OPOPY, noun [Gr. perso, and to make.] A figure in rhetoric by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated be...
PROSOPOPY
PROS'OPOPY, n. [Gr. perso, and to make.] A figure in rhetoric by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings, or by wh...
PROSPECT
PROS'PECT, noun [Latin prospectus, prospicio, to look forward; pro and specio, to see.]1. View of things within the reach of the eye.Eden and all the coast in prospect lay.2. Vi...
PROSPECTION
PROSPEC'TION, noun The act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants.
PROSPECTIVE
PROSPECT'IVE, adjective Looking forward in time; regarding the future; opposed to retrospective.The supporting of Bible societies is one of the points on which the promises, at ...
PROSPECTIVELY
PROSPECT'IVELY, adverb With reference to the future.
PROSPECTUS
PROSPECT'US, noun [Latin] The plan of a literary work, containing the general subject or design, with the manner and terms of publication, and sometimes a specimen of it.
PROSPER
PROS'PER, verb transitive [Latin prospero, from prosperus, from the Gr. to carry to or toward; to bear.] To favor; to render successful.All things concur to prosper our design.P...