See Profane.

Foreknowledge of a disease; prognosis.

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

A prophet.

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

A female prophet.

Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.

Propheticalness.

In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.

The quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.

To give predictions; to foreshow events; to prophesy.

Enunciative.

An internal dorsal chitinous process between the first two divisions of the thorax of insects.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Defending or preserving from disease; preventive.

The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.

Fit; propitious.

The unsymmetrical hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, CH3.CH2.CH, analogous to ethylidene, and regarded as the type of certain derivatives of propane; -- called also propylidene.

The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another.

Same as Allylene.

A hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of propine and allied compounds.

A salt of propiolic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called also propargylic acid) of the acetylene or tetrolic series, analogous to propionic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A salt of propionic acid.

The ketone of propionic acid, obtained as a colorless fragrant liquid.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic acid which is produced in the distillation of wood, in the fermentation of various organic substances, as glycerin, calcium lactate, etc., and is obtained as a colorless liquid having a sharp, pungent odor. Propionic acid is so called because it is the first or lowest member of the fatty acid series whose salts have a fatty feel.

The hypothetical radical C3H5O, regarded as the essential residue of propionic acid and certain related compounds.

A genus including the long-tailed, or diadem, indris. See Indris.

Capable of being propitiated.

To make propitiation; to atone.

One who propitiates or appeases.

By way of propitiation.

The mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the propitiated Jehovah.

A mold; a matrix.

Forming a mold.

The art of making molds for castings.

Same as Proleg.

Of or pertaining to the propodialia, or the parts of the limbs to which they belong.

The bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the propodialia being the humerus and femur.

The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, the penultimate joint.

The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk. The segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax of a hymenopterous insect.

Same as Bee glue, under Bee.

To propose; to bring forward.

Making proposals; proposing.

To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.

Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate.

Proportionally.

Any number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean proportional.

The state of being in proportion.

In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively; as, all parts of the building are proportionally large.

To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.

In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.

The quality or state of being proportionate.

Without proportion; unsymmetrical.

The act or process of dividing out proportionally.

That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.

Talk; discourse.

One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.

Pertaining to, or in the nature of, a proposition; considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense.

One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration.

A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.

Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.

One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.

Of or pertaining to ownership; proprietary; as, proprietorial rights.

The state of being proprietor; ownership.

A female proprietor.

Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.

A assistant proctor.

A game of chance, in which four sea shells, each called a prop, are used instead of dice.

The anterior of three principal cartilages in the fins of some fishes.

To contend for; to defend; to vindicate.

A fortress.

Means of defense; defense.

A defender; a vindicator.

The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance.

To repel; to drive off or away.

The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.

Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.

Propulsive.

The hypothetical radical C3H7, regarded as the essential residue of propane and related compounds.

Any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure.

A colorless gaseous hydrocarbon (C3H6) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as, propylic alcohol.

See Propidene.

The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.

Capable of being prorated, or divided proportionately.

To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.

The prow or fore part of a ship.

An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university.

The office of prorector.

Pronephric.

A creeping on.

Situated in front of the nasal chambers.

To prorogue.

The act of counting in duration; prolongation.

To protract; to prolong; to extend.

The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.

Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition.

The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style.

That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner.

A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer.

Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic.

The part where the actors performed; the stage.

An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. See Redia.

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.

One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict.

The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.

Proscriptive.

One who proscribes.

Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.

To write prose.

One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

To follow after.

The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war.

One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.

A female prosecutor.

To convert to some religion, opinion, or system; to bring over.