prolix i oust (proliksius)

[ Your Lordship commanded me to be large, and I take licence to be prolixious , and shalbe peraduenture tedious. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 217. Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes. Shak ., M. for M., ii. 4. 162. [ prolix i tee , prolixity (prō-lik'si-ti), n . OF. prolixite , F. prolix ité = Pr. prolix it at = Sp. prolijidad = Pg. prolixidade = It. proli ità , prolix it a (t-)s, great length or extension, prolix us , stretched out: see prolix .] The state of being prolix; extension; length. (a) Length in a material sense. [Rare.] Our fathers... in their shaded walks And long protracted bow'rs enjoyed at noon The gloom and coolne of declining day. Thanks to Benevolus - he spares me yet The obsolete prolixity of shade. Cowper , Task, i. 265. The monkey, meanwhile, with a thick tail curling out into preposterous prolixity from beneath his tartans, took his station at the Italian's feet. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, xi. (0) Leng you r ; minute and superfluous detail; tedious ne . I might expatiate in a large description of the several holy places which this Church (as a Cabinet) contains in it. But this would be a superfluous prolixity , so many Pilgrims having discharg'd this office with so much exactne already. Maundrell , Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 68. The minutene of Zurita's investigations has laid him open to the charge of prolixity . Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 1, note. prolixly (proʻliks-li or prō-liksʻli), adv . [ pro lix +-ly2.] In a prolix manner; at great length. That we have in the former chapters hitherto extended our discourse so prolixly , none ought to wonder. Evelyn , True Religion, I. 253. prolixne (prōʻliks-nes or prō-liks'nes), n . [ prolix prolix + -ne .] The character of being prolix; prolixity. The prolixne , constraint, and monotony of modern languages. Adam Smith , On the Formation of Languages. ( Latham . ) prollt, v. An obsolete form of prowl . n. prollert, An obsolete form of prowler. prolocutor (pro-lok'u-tor or pro lō-ku-tor), n. [Formerly prolocutour; oqui, speak out, utter, declare, Olivia undertook to be our prolocutor , and delivered the whole in a summary way. Goldsmith, Vicar, xi. The silence of records cannot be held to prove that an organised a embly like that of the commons could ever have dispensed with a recognised prolocutor or foreman. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 435. 2. The speaker or chairman of the lower house of the Convocation. (See convocation, 3.) He is elected by the lower house, subject to the approval of the metropolitan. As for the convocation, the queen thought fit to prorogue it, though at the expence of Dr. Atterbury's displeasure, who was designed their prolocutor . Swift , Letter, Jan. 12, 1708-9. prolocutorship (prō-lok'ū-tor-ship or proʻlō-kūtor-ship), п . [ prolocutor + -ship .] The office or station of a prolocutor. IMG:content-1068.png:[blocks in formation] prologize, v. i. See prologuize. prologue, prolog (proʻlog), n. [ Jerom in hise twei prolog is on Matheu seith this. Wyclif , Prolog (on Matthew). Think'st thou that mirth and vain delights, High feed, and shadow-short'ning nights,... Are proper prologues to a crown? Quarles, Emblems, ii. 11. How this vile World is chang'd! In former Days Prologues were serious Speeches before Plays. Congreve, Old Batchelor, Prol. 4766