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Proportionally

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

Proportionate

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

Proportionately

In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.

Proposal

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.

Proposer

One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.

Proposition

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

Propositional

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

Propound

To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.

Propounder

One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration.

Propretor

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

Proprietary

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

Proprietor

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.

Proprietorial

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

Propriety

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

Props

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

Propterygium

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

Propugn

To contend for; to defend; to vindicate.

Propulsation

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

Propulsion

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

Propulsive

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

Propyl

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

Propylaeum

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

Propylene

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.

Propylic

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

Propylon

The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.

Proratable

Capable of being prorated, or divided proportionately.

Prorate

To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.

Prore

The prow or fore part of a ship.

Prorector

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

Prorhinal

Situated in front of the nasal chambers.

Prorogation

The act of counting in duration; prolongation.

Prorogue

To protract; to prolong; to extend.

Proruption

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

Prosaical Prosaic

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

Prosaicism

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

Prosaism

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

Prosaist

A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer.

Prosal

Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic.

Proscenium

The part where the actors performed; the stage.

Proscolex

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

Proscribe

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.

Proscriber

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

Proscript

A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict.

Proscription

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

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

Prosector

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

Prosecutable

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

Prosecution

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.

Prosecutor

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

Proselyte

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

Proselytism

The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.

Proseminary

A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution.

Prosencephalon

The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain. The cerebrum.

Prosenchyma

A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.

Prosiliency

The act of leaping forth or forward; projection.

Prosiness

The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

Prosing

Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.

Prosiphon

A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true siphon.

Prosit

Lit., may it do (you) good; -- a salutation used in well wishing, esp. among Germans, as in drinking healths; -- also used in the contracted form prost.

Prosobranchiata

The highest division, or subclass, of gastropod mollusks, including those that have the gills situated anteriorly, or forward of the heart, and the sexes separate.

Prosocoele

The entire cavity of the prosencephalon.

Prosodical

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

Prosody

That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

Prosoma

The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod.

Prosopolepsy

Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance.

Prosopopoeia

A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.

Prosopulmonata

A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.

Prospect

To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.

Prospection

The act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants; foresight.

Prospective

The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.

Prospector

One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.

Prospectus

A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work.

Prosper

To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.

Prosperity

The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.

Prosperous

Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.

Prosphysis

A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball.

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