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Profaneness

The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.

Profaner

One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language.

Profection

A setting out; a going forward; advance; progression.

Profectitious

Proceeding from, as from a parent; derived, as from an ancestor.

Profert

The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.

Profess

To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

Professed

Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian.

Profession

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

Professional

A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.

Professionalism

The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; -- opposed to amateurism.

Professionally

In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.

Professor

One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.

Professorial

Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.

Professoriate

The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.

Professorship

The office or position of a professor, or public teacher.

Professory

Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial.

Proffer

An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.

Proficiency Proficience

The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.

Proficient

Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,

Profile

to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.

Profiling

In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

Profit

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.

Profitable

Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.

profiteer

To make an excessive profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods; to act as a profiteer.

Profligacy

The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.

Profligateness

The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

Profoundness

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.

Profundity

The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.

Profuse

To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.

Prog

Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.

Progenerate

To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race.

Progenitor

An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.

Progeny

Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.

Proglottis

One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.

Prognathi

A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.

Prognathous

Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; -- opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.

Progne

A swallow. A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin. An American butterfly (Polygonia Progne syn. Vanessa Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma.

Prognosis

The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.

Prognosticate

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

Prognosticator

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.

Programme

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.

Progress

To make progress in; to pass through.

Progressional

Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.

Progressist

One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.

Progue

A sharp point; a goad. To prick; to goad.

Prohibiter

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

Prohibition

The period of 1920 to 1932 in the United States, during which sale of alcoholic beverages were forbidden by the consitution.

Prohibitive

That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.

Prohibitory

Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price.

Proin

To employed in pruning.

Projector

One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.

Projet

A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.

Prolapse

To fall down or out; to protrude.

Prolatum

A prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

Proleg

One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larv/ of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.

Prolegate

The deputy or substitute for a legate.

Prolegomenary

Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.

Prolegomenon

A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.

Proleptics

The art and science of predicting in medicine.

Proletaire

One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.

Proletarian

Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar. A proletary.

Proletariat

The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.

Proletary

A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.

Prolicide

The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.

Prolifical

Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific.

Prolificate

To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.

Prolificness

The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.

Prolixity

The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.

Proll

To prowl about; to rob.

PROLOG

A declarative higher-level programming language in which instructions are written not as explicit procedural data-manipulation commands, but as logical statements. The language has built-in resolution procedures for logical inference.

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