prodigalise

See prodigalize. prodigality (prod-i-gal'i-ti), n. [= F. prodiga lité = Pr. prodigal it at = Sp. prodigal i dad = Pg. pro dig alidade = It. prodigal ità, It is not always so obvious to distinguish between an act of liberality and an act of prodigality . South . If a man by notorious prodigality was in danger of wasting his estate, he was looked upon as non compos, and committed to the care of curators or tutors by the prætor. Black stone , Com., I. viii. 2. Exce ive or profuse liberality. A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman, Framed in the prodigality of nature. Shak., Rich. III., i. 2. 244. =Syn. 1. Wastefulne , lavishne , squandering. See ex travagant. IMG:content-1039.png:[blocks in formation] II. in trans . To be extravagant in expend i- ture: with an indefinite it . Cotgrave. Also spelled prodigalise . prodigally (prod'i-gal-i), adv . [ prodigal + -ly2.] In a prodigal manner. (a) With profusion of expenses; extravagantly; lavishly; wastefully: as, an estate prodigally di ipated. The next in place and punishment are they Who prodigally throw their souls away. So many terrours, voices, prodigies , May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign. 2. A person or thing so extraordinary as to ex- cite great wonder or astonishment. The Churches are many and very fayre; in one of them lyes interr'd that prodigy of learning, the noble and ill us- trio us Joseph Scaliger. Evelyn , Diary, Aug. 19, 1641. Ay, but her beauty will affect you she is, though I say it who am her father, a very prodigy . Sheridan , The Duenna, ii. 1. 3. A monster; an animal or other production out of the ordinary course of nature. Most of mankind, through their own sluggishne , be- come nature's prodigies , not her children. B. Jonson. =Syn. 1. Sign, wonder, miracle.-2. Marvel. proditiont (pro-dishʻon), п . [ prod it i on = Sp. prodicion = Pg. prod ição = İt. prodizione , proditio ( n- ), discovery, be- trayal, prodere , bring forth, betray, dare , give: see date1 . Cf. treason , which contains the same radical element.] Treachery; treason. Henry Morley , First Sketch of Eng. Lit., viii. § 22. prodromy (prod'rō-mi), n . [ , α running forward: see prodrome .] A sign of something in the future; a presage. produce (pro-dūs'), v .; pret. and pp. produced , ppr. producing . [= F. produire = Pr. produire = Sp. producir = Pg. produzir = It. producere , L.producere , lead forth or forward, bring for- ward, draw or stretch out, extend, prolong, con- duct, etc., bring forth, bear, etc., pro , forth, forward, + ducere , lead, bring: see duct .] I. trans . 1. To lead or place forward or in front. [Rare.] Hed. O, his leg was too much produced. Ana . And his hat was carried scurvily. And not protector, of the king or realm. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 3. 31. proditoriousł (prod-i-tōʻri-us), a . [ pro- ditorius , traitorous: see proditory .] 1. Treach- erous; perfidious; traitorous. There is no proportion in this remuneration; this is not bounty, it is prodigence . Bp . Hall , John Baptist Beheaded. prodigious (pro-dij'us), a . [ prodigieux = Sp. Pg. It. prodigioso , prod i gios us , unnatu- ral, strange, wonderful, marvelous, prodigium , an omen, portent, monster: see prodigy .] 1t. 2. Apt to disclose or make known. Having the character or partaking of the na- ture of a prodigy; portentous. Super . The Diuill ouer-take thee! Amb . O fatall! Super . O prodigious to our blouds! Now, proditorious wretch! what hast thou done, To make this barbarous base a a inate? Daniel . I never see him but methinks his face Is more prodigious than a fiery comet. His head is like a huge spherical chamber, containing a prodigious ma of soft brains. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 157. Instead of the redre of such injuries, they saw a new and prodigious tax laid on the realm by the legislature. R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., xv. 3. Very great in degree; exce ive; extreme. I had much discourse with my Lord Win chelsea, a pro- Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 4, 1669. digious talker. For so small a man, his strength was prodigious . Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 77. They tell me I'm a prodigious favourite, and that he talks of leaving me every thing. Sheridan , School for Scandal, iii. 3. proditorious or perfidious manner; with treach- ery. proditorył (prod'i-tō-ri), a . [= F. proditoire = Sp. Pg. It. prod i to rio , proditor i us , trai- torous, proditor , a traitor: see proditor . ] Treacherous; perfidious. I... am moreover suitor that I may Produce his body to the market-place. IMG:content-1040.png:[blocks in formation] All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour. If this were that touch of conscience which he bore. with greater regrett, then for any other sin committed in his life, whether it were that proditory Aid sent to Rochel and Religion abroad, or that prodigality of shedding blood at home, to a million of his Subjects lives not valu'd in comparison of one Str afford, we may consider yet at last what true sense and feeling could be in that conscience. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, ii. prodromal (prodʻrō-mal), a . [ prodrome + -al .] In pathol . , preliminary; pertaining to or of the nature of prodromata. Also prodro- 5. To cause; effect; bring about. Shak ., Tempest, ii. 1. 159. Many plants are known which regularly produce at the same time differently-constructed flowers. Darwin , Origin of Species, p. 182. Minor symptoms preceding the well-marked outbreak of a disease; prodromal symptoms. IMG:content-1041.png:[blocks in formation] pest, smoke before fire, prodiges of a fearful con- flict to come. Rev. T. Adams , Works, II. 164. IMG:content-1042.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1043.png:[blocks in formation] 2. In entom . , to draw out; lengthen.-Product- ed pronotum, a pronotum terminated behind in a long proce extending over the mesothorax, metathorax, and part of the abdomen, as in certain gra hoppers. product (prod ́ukt), n . [=F. produit = Sp. Pg. producto = It. pro dot to , produtto = D. G. Sw. Dan. produkt , product, productum , neut. of product us , pp. of producere , lead forth, pro- duce: see produce .] That which is produced; as fruits or grain-crops; what is yielded by the soil: as, the agricultural products of a country. Fetch uncontrolled each labour of the sun, And make the product of the world our own. Add is on , To the King. See thy bright altars throng'd with prostrate kings, And heap'd with products of Sabean springs! Pope , Me iah, 1. 94. To whom thus Michael: These are the product Of those ill-mated marriages thou saw'st. Milton , P. L., xi. 683. physical labor. The centres of this organization of trade were the cloth halls, to which the masters brought their products to (e) In math ., the result of multiplying one quantity or expre ion by another. Thus, 72 is the product of 8 multiplied by 9; and dy / dx is the product of y multi- plied by the operator did a. The quantities multiplied together are usually termed factors . Product results from multiplication , as sum does from addition . (f) In chem., a compound not previously existing in a body, but formed during decomposition: as, the products of destructive distillation: contradistinguished from educt . -Direct, genital, organic, etc., products. See the ad- jectives. Homogeneous product, a product of ab- stract numbers or quantities of one kind. - Product of inertia. See inertia. - Resolvent product, the product fw.fw.fw.fw, where w is a fifth root of unity and fo = X1 + wx2 + w2x + w3X4 + w2x, the x's being roots of a quintic equation. Skew product, the product of the tensors of two vectors into the sine of the angle between them, and the whole multiplied by a unit vector perpen- dicular to the two vectors and directed in the way in which the revolution from the first factor to the second appears counter-clockwise. No produce ever maintains a consistent rate of produc- tibility . Ruskin , Unto This Last, p. 53, note. productible (pro-duk'ti-bl), a . [ tus , pp. of producere , lead forth. produce (see product ) , + -ible .] Capable of being produced; producible. [Rare.] productile (pro-duk'til), a . [ product i lis , that may be drawn out, product us , pp. of pro- ducere, lead forth, draw out, product: see pro- duce , product .] Capable of being extended in length. production (pro-duk's hon), n. [F. production = Sp. produccion = Pg. producção = It. produ- zione , productio ( n- ), a prolonging, length- ening, producere , pp. product us , lead forth, pro- long, produce: see produce , product . ] 1. The act or proce of producing. ( a ) The act of bring- ing forward or adducing. Public documents in general must be proved either by the production of the original or by the official copies. Encyc. Brit ., VIII. 742. producible ne (pro-du'si-bl-nes), n . ducible + -ne .] The state or quality of being (0) The act of making or creating. IMG:content-1044.png:[blocks in formation] Beeing pro ducted to his last bish. ye xv day of January. Great plentie of fine amber, which is pro ducted by the working of the sea upon those coasts. Holinshed , Descrip. of Britain, x. It seemes not meete, nor wholesome to my place, To be pro ducted (as, if I stay, I shall) Against the Moore. It can also be shown that the production of the two sorts of flowers by the same plant has been effected by finely- graduated steps. Darwin , Origin of Species, p. 182. Certain it is that hate and destruction are just as ne- ce ary agents as love and production in nature. Maudsley, Body and Will, xi. p. 239. The component elements of production are labour and capital, acting by natural forces upon raw material. Shak ., Othello (folio 1623), i. 1. 147. of literature or art. The Lion and the Leviathan are two of the noblest Pro- ductions in this World of living Creatures. Add is on , Spectator, No. 339. We have had our names prefixed at length to whole volumes of mean productions . Swift . So one, whose story serves at least to show Men loved their own productions long ago, Woo'd an unfeeling statue for his wife. productive (prō-duktiv), a . [= F. product if = Sp. Pg. productivo = It. produttivo , produc- tivus , serving to produce or prolong, producere , pp.product us , lead forth, produce: see produce , product .] 1. Serving to produce; having the power of producing: as, an age productive of great men. Productive in herb, plant, and nobler birth Of creatures animate with gradual life. Chaste as cold Cynthia's virgin light, Productive as the Sun. productively (pro-duktiv-li), adv . [ produc- tive + -ly2 .] In a productive manner; by pro- duction; with abundant produce. productivene (pro-duktiv-nes), n . ductive + -ne .] The character of being pro- ductive: as, the productivene of land or labor. productivity (pro-duk-tiv'i-ti), n . [ produc- tive + -ity.] The power of producing; produc- tivene . They have reinforced their own productivity by the cre- ation of that marvellous machinery which differences this age from any other age. Emerson , Eng. Traits, x. proem opening, an introduction, In the proheim off hys not a bile boke. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), Int., 1. 30. So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton , P. L., ix. 549. Thus much may serve by way of proem ; Proceed we therefore to our poem. Swift , Death of Dr. Swift. The proeme , or preamble, is often called in to help the construction of an act of parliament. Black stone , Com., I., Int., ii. proemt (prō'em), v . t . [ proem , n .] To preface. [Rare.] Moses might here very well proeme the repetition of the covenant upbraiding reprehension. South , Sermons, VIII. xiii. proembryo (prō-emʼbri-ō), п . [ πρό , before, + εμβρύον , embryo: see embryo .] In bot .: ( a ) In Characcæ , the product of the development and division of the oöspore, upon which the char a ceo us plant develops as a lateral bud. ( b ) In Archegoniatæ , the product of the development and division of the oöspore before the differentiation of the embryo. Goebel . (c) In phanerogams, same as suspensor . pro embryonic (pro-em-bri-on'ik), a. [ proemial (prō-ē'mi-al), a. [ This contempt of the world may be a piece of proemial piety, an usher or Baptist to repentance. Hammond , Works, IV. 492.