Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRO-CINCT', n. [L. procinctus; procingo, to prepare, that is, to gird.]

Complete preparation for action. [Little used.] – Milton.

PRO-CLAIM', v.t. [L. 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. – Lev. xxiii. 1 Kings xxi. He hath sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives. – Is. lxi.
2. To denounce; to give official notice of. Heralds were formerly employed to proclaim war.
3. To declare with honor; as, to proclaim the name of the Lord, that is, to declare his perfections. – Exod. xxxiii.
4. To utter openly; to make public. Some profligate wretches openly proclaim their atheism. Most men wilt proclaim every one his own goodness. – Prov. xx.
5. To outlaw by public denunciation. I heard myself proclaimed. – Shak.

PRO-CLAIM'ED, pp.

Published officially; promulgated; made publicly known.

PRO-CLAIM'ER, n.

One who publishes by authority; one that announces or makes publicly known.

PRO-CLAIM'ING, ppr.

Publishing officially; denouncing; promulgating; making publicly known.

PROC-LA-MA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. proclamatio, from proclamo.]

1. Publication by authority; official notice given to the public. King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah. – 1 Kings xv.
2. In England, a declaration of the king's will, openly published. Proclamations are a branch of the king's prerogative, and are binding on the subject. – Encyc.
3. The declaration of any supreme magistrate publicly made known; as, the proclamation of the governor appointing a day of thanksgiving.
4. The paper containing an official notice to a people. The sherif receives and distributes the governor's proclamations. – New England.

PRO-CLIVE', a.

Proclivous. [Not used.]

PRO-CLIV'I-TY, n. [L. proclivitas, proclivis; pro and clivus, a cliff.]

1. Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency. The sensitive appetite may engender a proclivity to steal but not a necessity to steal. – Bp. Hall.
2. Readiness; facility of learning. He had such a dextrous proclivity, that his teachers were fain to restrain his forewardness. – Wotton.

PRO-CLI'VOUS, a. [L. proclivus, proclivis, supra.]

Inclined; tending by nature. – Dict.

PRO-CON'SUL, n. [L. 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, and their authority expired at the end of a year from their appointment. – Encyc.

PRO-CON'SU-LAR, a.

1. Pertaining to a proconsul; as, proconsular powers.
2. Under the government of a proconsul; as, a proconsular province.

PRO-CON'SUL-ATE, or PRO-CON'SUL-SHIP, n.

The office of a proconsul, or the term of his office.

PRO-CRAS'TI-NATE, v.i.

To delay; to be dilatory. I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago. – Swift.

PRO-CRAS'TI-NATE, v.t. [L. 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 repentance.

PRO-CRAS'TI-NA-TED, pp.

Delayed; deferred.

PRO-CRAS'TI-NA-TING, ppr.

Delaying; putting off to a future time.

PRO-CRAS-TI-NA'TION, n. [L. procrastinatio.]

A putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.

PRO-CRAS'TI-NA-TOR, n.

One that defers the performance of any thing to a future time.

PRO'CRE-ANT, a. [L. procreans. See Procreate.]

Generating; producing; productive; fruitful. – Shak.

PRO'CRE-ANT, n.

He or that which procreates or generates. – Milton.

PRO'CRE-ATE, v.t. [L. procreo; pro and creo, to create.]

1. To beget; to generate and produce; to engender; used properly of animals. – Bentley.
2. To produce; used of plants, but hardly allowable. – Blackmore.

PRO'CRE-A-TED, pp.

Begotten; generated.

PRO'CRE-A-TING, ppr.

Begetting, generating; as young.

PRO-CRE-A'TION, a. [Fr. from L. procreatio.]

The act of begetting; generation and production of young. – South.

PRO'CRE-A-TIVE, a.

Generative; having the power to beget. – Hale.