One who, or that which, proves.
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To write or utter proverbs.
Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial.
A proverbial phrase.
One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
To turn into a proverb; to speak in proverbs.
In a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence, commonly; universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is proverbially busy.
Great advance in age.
To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.
On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding; if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever.
The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.
Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; -- sometimes followed by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of the future.
Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape.
In a provident manner.
The quality or state of being provident; carefulness; prudence; economy.
One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.
One who makes provision; a purveyor.
A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
One who lives in a province; a provincial.
The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.
To render provincial.
In a provincial manner.
To convert into a province or provinces.
To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation.
To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.
Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
By way of provision for the time being; temporarily.
Provisional.
An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.
One who provides; a purveyor.
In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily.
The office or position of a provisor.
Of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or condition; conditional; as, a provisory clause.
The act of provoking, or causing vexation or, anger.
Anything that is provocative; a stimulant; as, a provocative of appetite.
Quality of being provocative.
Provocative.
That may be provoked.
To cause provocation or anger.
The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition.
Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment.
A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.
The office of a provost.
Benefit; profit; good; advantage.
Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness.
The act of prowling.
One that prowls.
Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey.
/The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes./
An officer who had the charge of showing hospitality to those who came from a friendly city or state.
A negotiator; a factor.
The action of a go-between or broker in negotiating immoral bargains between the sexes; procuring.
Toward a proximal part; on the proximal side of; proximally.
Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.
On or toward a proximal part; proximad.
Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.
In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.
Next; immediately preceding or following.
Proximate.
The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance.
To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.
The office or agency of a proxy.
Prussian leather.
A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech.
The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.
Prudence.
Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.
That which relates to or demands the exercise of, discretion or prudence; -- usually in the pl.
One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
The quality or state of being prudential.
In a prudential manner; prudently.
In a prudent manner.
The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.
A trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman. See Citation under 3d Commune, 1.
Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.
In a prudish manner.
Same as Pruinose.
Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.
Frosty; pruinose.
A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.
Angina, or angina pectoris. Thrush.
A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.
A species of dried plum; prunelle.
A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.
One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.
Bearing plums.
The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.
A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.
The quality or state of being prurient.
Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.
Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo.
A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.
Itching.
Of or pertaining to Prussia. A native or inhabitant of Prussia.
A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide.
designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.
Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.
Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
See Prian.
Inspecting closely or impertinently.
In a prying manner.
A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.
A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
See Prithee.
To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises.
A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.
The use of psalms in devotion; psalmody.
Relating to psalmody.
One who sings sacred songs; a psalmist.
To practice psalmody.
The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.
A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.
A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.
The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs.
The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.
Of or pertaining to the psalterium.
The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies. The lyra of the brain.
A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known.
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