Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PRO-LAPSE' – PRO-LOC'U-TOR
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PRO-LAPSE', n. [prolaps'; L. prolapsus, prolabor.]
A falling down or falling out of some part of the body, as of the uterus or intestines. – Encyc.
PRO-LAPSE, v.i. [prolaps'.]
To fall down or out; to project too much.
PRO-LAP'SION, or PRO-LAP'SUS, n. [See PROLAPSE.]
PRO'LATE, a. [supra.]
Extended beyond the line of an exact sphere. A prolate spheroid is produced by the revolution of a semi-ellipsis about its larger diameter. – Encyc.
PRO-LATE', v.t. [L. prolatum, profero.]
To utter; to pronounce. [Not used.] – Howell.
PRO-LA'TION, n. [L. prolatio, from profero.]
- Utterance; pronunciation. [Little used.] – Ray.
- Delay; act of deferring. [Not used.] – Ainsworth.
- A method in music of determining the power of semi-breves and minims. – Busby.
PRO-LE-GOM'E-NA, n. [plur. Gr. προλεγομενα; προ and λεγω, to speak.]
Preliminary observations; introductory remarks or discourses prefixed to a book or treatise. – Walton.
Preliminary; introductory; containing previous explanations. – Ed. Rev.
PRO'LEGS, n. [plur.]
- [1844] In entomology, the fleshy, pediform, and frequently retractile organs, which assist various larvæ in their movements.
- [1841] In entomology, forelegs.
PRO-LEP'SIS, or PRO-LEP'SY, n. [Gr. προληψις, from προλαμβανω; προ and λαμβανω, to take.]
- Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented. – Bramhall.
- An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the actual time; an anachronism. – Theobald.
PRO-LEP'TIC, or PRO-LEP'TIC-AL, a.
- Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation.
- Previous; antecedent. – Glanville.
- In medicine, anticipating the usual time; applied to a periodical disease, whose paroxysm returns at an earlier hour at every repetition. – Encyc.
PRO-LEP'TIC-AL-LY, adv.
By way of anticipation.
PRO-LE-TA'NE-OUS, a.
Having a numerous offspring.
PRO-LE-TA'RI-AN, a. [L. proletarius, from proles, offspring.]
Mean; vile; vulgar. [Not used.] – Hudibras.
PRO'LE-TA-RY, n.
A common person. [Not used.] – Burton.
PRO-LIF'ER-OUS, a. [infra.]
In botany, a proliferous flower is a flower which produces another flower within itself. A proliferous umbel is one which produces another umbel from its own center.
PRO-LIF'IC, or PRO-LIF'IC-AL, a. [It. and Sp. prolifico; Fr. prolifique; L. proles, offspring, and facio, to make.]
- Producing young or fruit; fruitful; generative; productive; applied to animals and plants; as, a prolific female; a prolific tree.
- Productive; having the quality of generating; as, a controversy prolific of evil consequences; a prolific brain.
- A prolific flower, [prolifer,] in botany, is one which produces a second flower from its own center, or which has smaller flowers growing out of the principal one. But proliferous is commonly used. – Encyc. Martyn.
PRO-LIF'IC-A-CY, n.
Fruitfulness; great productiveness. – Encyc.
PRO-LIF'IC-AL-LY, adv.
Fruitfully; with great increase.
PRO-LIF-I-CA'TION, n. [See Prolific.]
- The generation of young or of plants.
- In botany, the production of a second flower from the substance of the first. This is either from the center of a simple flower, or from the side of an aggregate flower. – Lee.
PRO-LIF'IC-NESS, n.
The state of being prolific. – Scott.
PRO-LIX', a. [L. prolixus; pro and laxus, literally drawn out.]
- Long; extending to a great length; minute in narration or argument; applied only to discourses, speeches, and writings; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.
- Of long duration. [Not in use.]
PRO-LIX'I-TY, or PRO-LIX'NESS, n.
Great length; minute detail; applied only to discourses and writings. Prolixity is not always tedious.
PRO-LIX'LY, adv.
At great length. – Dryden.
PRO-LOC'U-TOR, n. [L. proloquor; pro and loquor, to speak.]
The speaker or chairman of a convocation. – Swift.