Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRO-GRES'SION, n. [Fr. from L. progressio, progredior.]

1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. – Locke.
2. Intellectual advance; as, the progression of thought. – Locke.
3. Course; passage. – Shak.
4. In mathematics, regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical or geometrical. Continued arithmetical proportion, is when the terms increase or decrease by equal differences. Thus, {2. 4. 6. 8. 10. ~ 10. 8. 6. 4. 2.} by the difference 2. Geometrical proportion or progression, is when the terms increase or decrease by equal ratios. Thus, {2. 4. 8. 16. 32. 64. ~ 64. 32. 16. 8. 4. 2.} by a continual multiplication or division by 2. – Encyc.
5. In music, a regular succession of chords or movement of the parts in harmony.

PRO-GRES'SION-AL, a.

That advance; that is in a state of advance. – Brown.

PRO-GRESS'IVE, a.

1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. – Bacon. Ray.
2. Improving. The arts are in a progressive state.

PRO-GRESS'IVE-LY, adv.

By motion onward; by regular advances. – Hooke.

PRO-GRESS'IVE-NESS, n.

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

PRO-HAC-VICE, adv. [Pro hac vice; L.]

For this occasion.

PRO-HIB'IT, v.t. [L. prohibeo; pro and habeo, to hold; Fr. prohiber; It. proibire; Sp. prohibir.]

1. To forbid; to interdict by authority; applicable to persons or things, but implying authority or right. God prohibited Adam to eat of the fruit of a certain tree. The moral law prohibits what is wrong and commands what is right. We prohibit a person to do a thing, and we prohibit the thing to be done.
2. To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude. Gates of burning adamant, / Bar'd over us, prohibit all egress. – Milton.

PRO-HIB'IT-ED, pp.

Forbid; interdicted; hindered.

PRO-HIB'ITER, n.

One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.

PRO-HIB'IT-ING, ppr.

Forbidding; interdicting; debarring.

PRO-HI-BI'TION, n. [Fr. from L. prohibitio.]

1. The act of forbidding or interdicting; a declaration to hinder some action; interdict. The law of God in the ten commandments consists mostly of prohibitions; “thou shalt not do such a thing.” – Tillotson.
2. In law, a writ of prohibition, is a writ issuing from a superior tribunal, directed to the judges of an inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution of a suit. By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself. – Blackstone.

PRO-HIB'IT-IVE, or PRO-HIB'IT-O-RY, a.

Forbidding; implying prohibition. – Barrow. Ayliffe.

PROIN, v.i.

To be employed in pruning. [Obs.] – Bacon.

PROIN, v.t. [Fr. provigner; pro and vigne, vine.]

To lop; to trim; to prune. [Obs.] [See Prune.] – B. Jonson.

PROJ'ECT, n. [Fr. projet.]

1. A scheme; a design; something intended or devised; contrivance; as, the project of a canal from the Hudson to the lakes; all our projects of happiness are liable to be frustrated.
2. An idle scheme; a design not practicable; as, a man given to projects.

PRO-JECT', v.i.

To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to jut; to be prominent; as, the cornice projects.

PRO-JECT', v.t. [L. projicio; pro, forward, and jacio, to throw; It. progettare; Fr. projeter; Sp. proyectar.]

1. To throw out; to cast or shoot forward. Th' ascending villas / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide. – Pope.
2. To cast forward in the mind; to scheme; to contrive; to devise something to be done; as, to project a plan for paying off the national debt; to project an expedition to South America; to project peace or war. – Milton.
3. To draw or exhibit, as the form of any thing; to delineate.

PRO-JECT'ED, pp.

Cast out or forward; schemed; devised; delineated.

PRO-JECT'ILE, a.

1. Impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
2. Given by impulse; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. – Arbuthnot.

PRO-JECT'ILE, n.

1. A body projected, or impelled forward by force, particularly through the air.
2. Projectiles, in mechanical philosophy, is that part which treats of the motion of bodies thrown or driven by an impelling force from the surface of the earth, and affected by gravity and the resistance of the air.

PRO-JECT'ING, ppr.

Throwing out or forward; shooting out; jutting; scheming; contriving.

PRO-JEC'TION, n. [L. projectio.]

1. The act of throwing or shooting forward. – Brown.
2. A jutting out; extension beyond something else.
3. The act of scheming; plan; scheme; design of something to be executed.
4. Plan; delineation; the representation of something; as, the projection of the sphere, is a representation of the circles on the surface of the sphere. There are three principal points of projection; the stereographic, in which the eye is supposed to be placed on the surface of the sphere; the orthographic, in which the eye is supposed to be at an infinite distance; and the gnomonic, in which the eye is placed in the center of the sphere. – Encyc. In perspective, projection denotes the appearance or representation of an object on the perspective plane. – Encyc.
5. In alchimy, the casting of a certain powder, called powder of projection, into a crucible or other vessel full of some prepared metal or other matter, which is to be thereby transmuted into gold. – Encyc.

PRO-JECT'MENT, n.

Design; contrivance. [Little used.] – Clarendon.

PRO-JECT'OR, n.

1. One who forms a scheme or design. – Addison.
2. One who forms wild or impracticable schemes. – Pope.

PRO-JECT'URE, n.

A jutting or standing out beyond the line or surface of something else.