PROCERITY
PROCER'ITY, noun [Latin proceritas, from procerus, tall.]Tallness; highth of stature. [Little used.]
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PROCESS
PROC'ESS, noun [Latin processus, from procedo. See Proceed.]1. A proceeding or moving forward; progressive course; tendency; as the process of man's desire.2. Proceedings; gradu...
PROCESSION
PROCES'SION, noun [Latin processio. See Proceed.]1. The act of proceeding or issuing.2. A train of persons walking, or riding on horseback or in vehicles, in a formal march, or ...
PROCESSIONAL
PROCES'SIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.PROCES'SIONAL, noun A book relating to processions of the Romish church.
PROCESSIONARY
PROCES'SIONARY, adjective Consisting in procession; as processionary service.
PROCHEIN
PROCHEIN, adjective pro'shen. [Latin proximus.] Next; nearest; used in the law phrase, prochein amy, the next friend, any person who undertakes to assist an infant or minor in p...
PROCHRONISM
PRO'CHRONISM, noun [Gr. to precede in time, before, and time.]An antedating; the dating of an event before the time it happened; hence, an error in chronology.
PROCIDENCE
PRO'CIDENCE, noun [Latin procidentia; procido, to fall down.]A falling down; a prolapsus; as of the intestinum rectum.
PROCIDUOUS
PROCID'UOUS, adjective That falls from its place.
PROCINCT
PROCINCT', noun [Latin procinctus; procingo, to prepare, that is, to gird.] Complete preparation for action. [Little used.]
PROCLAIM
PROCLA'IM, verb transitive [Latin proclamo; pro and clamo, to cry out. See Claim.]1. To promulgate; to announce; to publish; as, to proclaim a fast; to proclaim a feast. Levitic...
PROCLAIMED
PROCLA'IMED, participle passive Published officially; promulgated; made publicly known.
PROCLAIMER
PROCLA'IMER, noun One who publishes by authority; one that announces or makes publicly known.
PROCLAIMING
PROCLA'IMING, participle present tense Publishing officially; denouncing; promulgating; making publicly known.
PROCLAMATION
PROCLAMA'TION, noun [Latin proclamatio, from proclamo.]1. Publication by authority; official notice given to the public.King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah.1 Kings...
PROCLIVE
PROCLI'VE, adjective Proclivous. [Not used.]
PROCLIVITY
PROCLIV'ITY, noun [Latin proclivitas, proclivis; pro and clivus, a cliff.]1. Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency.The sensitive appetite may engender a proclivity to ste...
PROCLIVOUS
PROCLI'VOUS, adjective [Latin proclivus, proclivis, supra.]Inclined; tending by nature.
PROCONSUL
PROCON'SUL, noun [Latin pro, for, and consul.]A Roman magistrate sent to govern a province with consular authority. The proconsuls were appointed from the body of the senate, an...
PROCONSULAR
PROCON'SULAR, adjective Pertaining to a proconsul; as proconsular powers.1. Under the government of a proconsul; as a proconsular province.
PROCONSULSHIP
PROCON'SULSHIP, noun The office of a proconsul, or the term of his office.
PROCRASTINATE
PROCRAS'TINATE, verb transitive [Latin procrastinor; pro and crastinus; cras, to-morrow.] To put off from day to day; to delay; to defer to a future time; as, to procrastinate r...
PROCRASTINATED
PROCRAS'TINATED, participle passive Delayed; deferred.
PROCRASTINATING
PROCRAS'TINATING, participle present tense Delaying; putting off to a future time.
PROCRASTINATION
PROCRASTINA'TION, noun [Latin procrastinatio.]A putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.
PROCRASTINATOR
PROCRAS'TINATOR, noun One that defers the performance of any thing to a future time.
PROCREANT
PRO'CREANT, adjective [Latin procreans. See Procreate.]Generating; producing; productive; fruitful.