PRONUNCIATION
PRONUNCIA'TION, noun [Latin pronunciatio.]1. The act of uttering with articulation; utterance; as the pronunciation of syllables or words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation2....
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PRONUNCIATIVE
PRONUN'CIATIVE, adjective Uttering confidently; dogmatical.
PROOF
PROOF, noun1. Trial; essay; experiment; any effort, process or operation that ascertains truth or fact. Thus the quality of spirit is ascertained by proof; the strength of gun-p...
PROOFLESS
PROOF'LESS, adjective Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved.
PROP
PROP, verb transitive1. To support or prevent from falling by placing something under or against; as, to prop a fence or an old building.2. To support by standing under or again...
PROPAGABLE
PROP'AGABLE, adjective [See Propagate.] That may be continued or multiplied by natural generation or production; applied to animals and vegetables.1. That may be spread or exten...
PROPAGANDISM
PROP'AGANDISM, noun [See Propagate.] The art or practice of propagating tenets or principles.
PROPAGANDIST
PROPAGAND'IST, noun A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles.Bonaparte selected a body to compose his Sanhedrim of political propagandists.
PROPAGATE
PROP'AGATE, verb transitive [Latin propago. See Prop. The Latin noun propago, is the English prop, and the termination ago, as in cartilago, etc. The sense of the noun is that w...
PROPAGATED
PROP'AGATED, participle passive Continued or multiplied by generation or production of the same kind; spread; extended.
PROPAGATING
PROP'AGATING, participle present tense Continuing or multiplying the kind by generation or production; spreading and establishing.
PROPAGATION
PROPAGA'TION, noun [Latin propagatio.]1. The act of propagating; the continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as the propagation of anim...
PROPAGATOR
PROP'AGATOR, noun One that continues or multiplies his own species by generation.1. One that continues or multiplies any species of animals or plants.2. One that spreads or caus...
PROPEL
PROPEL', verb transitive [Latin propello; pro, forward, and pello, to drive.]To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force. The wind or steam propels ships; balls are prope...
PROPELLED
PROPEL'LED, participle passive Driven forward.
PROPELLING
PROPEL'LING, participle present tense Driving forward.
PROPEND
PROPEND', verb intransitive [Latin propendeo; pro, forward, and pendeo, to hang.]To lean towards; to incline; to be disposed in favor of any thing. [Little used.]
PROPENDENCY
PROPEND'ENCY, noun [Latin propendens.] A leaning towards; inclination; tendency of desire to any thing.1. Preconsideration; attentive deliberation. [Little used.]
PROPENDING
PROPEND'ING, participle present tense Inclining towards.
PROPENSE
PROPENSE, adjective propens'. [Latin propensus.] Leaning towards, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed, either to good or evil; as women propense to holiness.
PROPENSION
PROPEN'SIONPROPENS'ITY, noun [Latin propensio.]1. Bent of mind, natural or acquired; inclination; in a moral sense; disposition to any thing good or evil, particularly to evil; ...
PROPENSITY
PROPENS'ITY, n. [L. propensio.]1. Bent of mind, natural or acquired; inclination; in a moral sense; disposition to any thing good or evil, particularly to evil; as a propensity ...
PROPER
PROP'ER, adjective [Latin proprius, supposed to be allied to prope, near.]1. Peculiar; naturally or essentially belonging to a person or thing; not common. That is not proper wh...
PROPERLY
PROP'ERLY, adverb Fitly; suitably; in a proper manner; as a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.1. In a strict sense.The miseries of life are not properly owing to ...
PROPERNESS
PROP'ERNESS, noun The quality of being proper. [Little used.]1. Tallness. [Not in use.]2. Perfect form; handsomeness.
PROPERTY
PROP'ERTY, noun [This seems to be formed directly from proper. The Latin is proprietas.]1. A peculiar quality of any thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally ess...
PROPHANE
PROPHANE. [See Profane.]