Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PROD'I-GAL – PRO-DUC'TILE
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PROD'I-GAL, n.
One that expends money extravagantly or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish; a waster; a spendthrift. – Dryden.
PROD-I-GAL'I-TY, n. [Fr. prodigalité; It. prodigalità; Sp. prodigalidad.]
- Extravagance in the expenditure of what one possesses, particularly of money; profusion; waste; excessive liberality. It is opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony. By the Roman law a man of notorious prodigality was treated as non compos. – Encyc. The most severe censor can not but be pleased with the prodigality of his wit. – Dryden.
- Profuse liberality.
PROD'I-GAL-IZE, v.i.
To be extravagant in expenditures. [Not used.] – Sherwood.
PROD'I-GAL-LY, adv.
- With profusion of expenses; extravagantly; lavishly; wastefully; as, an estate prodigally dissipated.
- With liberal abundance; profusely. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows, / Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. – Dryden.
PRO-DIG'IOUS, a. [Sp. and It. prodigioso; Fr. prodigieux; L. prodigiosus. See Prodigy.]
- Very great; huge; enormous in size, quantity, extent, &c.; as, a mountain of prodigious size or altitude; a prodigious mass or quantity of water; an ocean or plain of prodigious extent. Hence,
- Wonderful; astonishing; such as may seem a prodigy; monstrous; portentous. It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. – Brown. Prodigious to relate. – Dryden.
PRO-DIG'IOUS-LY, adv.
- Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, a number prodigiously great. – Ray.
- Very much; extremely; in familiar language. He was prodigiously pleased.
Enormousness of size; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment. – Hall.
PROD'I-GY, n. [L. prodigium, from prodigo, to shoot out, drive out, properly to spread to a great extent.]
- Any thing out of the ordinary process of nature, and so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; as, a prodigy of learning. – Spectator.
- Something extraordinary from which omens are drawn; portent. Thus eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.
- A monster; an animal or other production out of the ordinary course of nature. – B. Jonson.
PRO-DI'TION, n. [L. proditio, from prodo, to betray; supposed to be compounded of pro and do, to give. But in W. bradu is to betray.]
Treachery; treason. – Ainsworth.
PROD'I-TOR, n. [L.]
A traitor. [Not in use.] – Shak.
PROD-I-TO'RI-OUS, a.
- Treacherous; perfidious; traitorous. [Not in use.] – Daniel.
- Apt to make discoveries or disclosures. [Not in use.] – Wotton.
PROD'I-TO-RY, a.
Treacherous; perfidious. – Milton.
PRO'DROME, n. [Gr. προδρομος; προ and τρεχω, to run.]
A forerunner. [Not in use.] – Coles.
PROD'UCE, n.
That which is produced, brought forth or yielded; product; as, the produce of a farm; the produce of trees; the produce of a country; the produce of a manufacture; the produce of the sea; the produce of a tax; the produce of a mine. But when we speak of something formed by an individual artisan or genius, we call it a production.
PRO-DUCE', v.t. [L. produco; pro and duco, to lead or draw; Sax. teogan, teon, to tug; It. producere, produrre; Sp. producir; Fr. produire.]
- To bring forward; to bring or offer to view or notice; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court. Produce your cause. – Is. xli.
- To exhibit to the public. Your parents did not produce you much into the world. – Swift.
- To bring forth; to bear; as plants or the soil. Trees produce fruit; the earth produces trees and grass; wheat produces an abundance of food.
- To bear; to generate and bring forth; as young. The seas produce fish in abundance. They … Produce prodigious births of body or mind. – Milton.
- To cause; to effect; to bring into existence. Small causes sometimes produce great effects. The clouds produce rain. The painter produces a picture or a landscape. The sculptor produces a statue. Vice produces misery.
- To raise; to bring into being. The farmer produces grain enough for his family.
- To make; to bring into being or form. The manufacturer produces excellent wares.
- To yield or furnish. Money produces interest; capital produces profit. The commerce of the country produces a revenue to government.
- In general, to bring into existence or into view.
- To draw out in length; to extend; as, a line produced from A. to B. – Geometry.
PRO-DUC'ED, pp.
Brought into life, being or view; yielded.
PRO-DUCE'MENT, n.
Production. [Not used.] – Milton.
PRO-DU'CENT, n.
One that exhibits or offers to view or notice. [Not much used.] – Ayliffe.
PRO-DU'CER, n.
One that generates; one that produces. – Locke. Suckling.
The power of producing. [Not used.] – Barrow.
PRO-DU'CI-BLE, a. [It. producibile, produtibile.]
- That may be brought into being; that may be generated or made; as, producible salts. – Boyle.
- That may be brought into view or notice; that may be exhibited. – Hammond.
The state or quality of being producible; as, the producibleness of salts. – Boyle.
PRO-DUC'ING, ppr.
Generating; bringing into existence or notice.
PROD'UCT, n. [L. productus, from produco; Fr. produit.]
- That which is produced by nature, as fruits, grain, metals; as, the product of land; the products of the season.
- That which is formed or produced by labor or by mental application; as, the products of manufactures, of commerce or of art; the products of great and wise men. In the latter sense, production is now generally used. In general, products comprehend whatever is produced or made; as when we speak of the products of a country exported. The product of the import and excise. – Belknap. N. Hamp.
- Effect; result; something consequential. These are the product / Of those ill mated marriages. – Milton.
- In arithmetic, the amount of two or more numbers multiplied. Thus 5x7=35, the product. Product results from multiplication, as sum does from addition.
- In geometry, the factum of two or more lines.
PRO-DUC'TILE, a.
That may be extended in length.