Prompt

prompt, a. Ready and quick to act as occa- sion demands; acting with cheerful alacrity; guicklv, readily, or cheerfully performed; expeditious; brisk; nimble. — v. To move or excite to action or exertion; to suggest to the mind; esp., to a ist (a speaker or a learner) when at a lo . [F.; L. prompt us, p. p. of promere, to take or bring forth, pro and emere, to take.] — Prompfer, n. One who prompts; esp., one who a ists speakers, or acttors in a play, when at a lo .— Promptitude, -T tQd, n. Quality of being prompt; quickne of decision and action when occasion demands: cheerful alacritv. [F.] — Promptly, adv. — Prompt'neas, n.