prot eros pong i a

[Pref. protero-, and Gr. sponggos =a sponge.] Zool.: A genus of Phalansteriide (q. v.), formed by Saville Kent (named at first Protospongia). He considers it, "so far as is known, the nearest concatenating form between the respective groups of the ordinary Choano-Flag ell at a and the Spongida," and that it may be "consistently accepted as fur nishing a stock-form, from which, by the proce of evolution, all sponges were primarily derived." *prō-ter-vi-tě, s. [Lat. protervitas ; protervus =perverse.] Perversene , petulance. pro-těst, v . i . & t . [Fr. protester , from Lat. protesto, protestor, from pro =openly, and test or to bear witne ; testis a witne ; Sp. & Port. pro testar; Ital. protest are .] A. Intransitive : 1. To make a solemn affirmation, declaration, or protestation; to affirm with solemnity; to declare or affirm solemnly; to a everate. "I doe protest The proce e of my plaint is true." Gas coigne: Divorce of a Lover. 2. To make a solemn or formal declaration (often in writing) against some act or proposition. (Followed by against .) B. Transitive : I. Ordinary Language : B. As substantive: proteus 1. Ord. Lang.: One who protests. 2. Church Hist .: The name given to those princes and others who, on April 19, 1529, at the second diet of Speyer, protested against the decision of the majority, that the permi ion given three years before to every prince to regulate religious matters in his dominions till the meeting of a General Council should be revoked, and that no change should be made till the council met. Besides protesting, they appealed to the emperor and to the future council. The diet rejecting their protest, they presented a more extended one next day. Those first Protestants were John, Elector of Saxony; the Margrave George of Brandenburg, Onolzbach, and Culm back; the Dukes Ernest and Francis of Luneberg; the Landgrave Philip of He e; Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt, and the representatives of the imperial cities of Strasburg, Ulm, Nuremberg, Con stance, Reutlingen, Windsheim, Memmingen, Lindau, Kempten, Heilbron, Isny, We is sen burg, Nordlingen, and St. Gall. The name is now extended to all persons and churches holding the doctrines of the Reformation and rejecting Papal authority. protestant-di enters, s. pl. [DISSENTER.] protestant-succe ion, s. [SUCCESSION.]