profundity, profoundite

[Fr. pro fond ité, from profond =profound (q. v).] 1. The quality or ty or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, skill, science, . "We may respect the profundity of learning."-Observer, No. 75. *2. A depth, an aby . ( Milton.) *3. A deep or abstruse point. "Yea, all abstruse profundities impart." Drayton: Robert Duke of Normandy. pro-fūse', a . [Lat. profusus , pa. par. of profundo = to pour out; pro =forward, and fun do to pour; O. Fr. prof us ; Sp. & Ital. profuso .] 1. Poured forth lavishly, lavished; overabundant, exuberant. 2. Pouring forth lavishly; lavish, extravagant, prodigal; liberal to exce . "Of what he gives unsparing and profuse." Cowper Expostulation. 3. Lavishly supplied; abounding. "On a green shady bank, profuse of flowers." Milton P. L. , viii. 286. *pro-fūşe', v . t . [PROFUSE, a.] To pour out or spend lavishly; to lavish, to squander. pro-fūse-lý, adv . [English profuse ; -ly.] In a profuse manner or degree; lavishly, prodigally; with rich abundance; in profusion. "And unavailing tears profusely shed." Pope : Homer's Iliad , xiii. 825. pro-füse-ne , s . [Eng. profuse; -ne .] The quality or state of being profuse; profusion, lavishne , prodigality. "A promiscuous undistinguishing profusene ."-South: Sermons , vol. iv., ser. 10. *pro-füş-er, s. [Eng. prof us (e); -er.] A lavisher, a squanderer. "Fortune's a blind profuser of her own." Herrick: Hesperides , p. 255. sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-1575.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1576.png:[blocks in formation] "Hippo crates' prog no stick is generally true."- Arbuth- not: On Diet, ch. iii. *prog-nos-tic, *prog-nos-tick, v . t . [PROG- NOSTIC, a .] To prognosticate, to foreshadow. "The sun shines waterishly and prog no sticks rain."_ More: Immort . Soul , pt. iii., bk. iii., ch. v. †prog-nos-tic-a-ble, a . [Eng. prognostic ; -able .] known. Capable of being prognosticated, foretold, or fore- Vulgar Errors , bk. vi., ch. viii. "Effects not prognostic able like eclipses." - Browne : prog-nos-ti-cate, *pro-nos-ty-cate, v. t. & i. [Eng. prognostic ; -ate . "To prevent the prognosticated evil."-Burke: On the French Revolution. 2. To predict, to prophesy, to foretell. "I neither will, nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir, his father's fate." Dryden: Juvenal , sat. iii. *prog-nos-ti-ca-tõr-, adj . [Eng. prognosti- cat(e); -ory.] Prognosticative; ominous. prō'-grăm, s . [PROGRAMME.] *prō-grăm-ma, s. [Lat., from Gr.pro gramma = pro gramma a public notice in writing: pro =before, openly, and gramma=a writing; grapho to write; Ital. pro- gramma .] [PROGRAMME.] 1. A public notice posted up; an edict; a proc- "A pro gramma stuck up in every college hall."- Wood : IMG:content-1577.png:[blocks in formation] another. *6. A journey or pa age from one place to "From Egypt arts their progre made to Greece." Denham: Progre of Learning, 21. IMG:content-1578.png:[blocks in formation] "Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progre on thy cheeks." Shakesp.: King John, v. 2. IMG:content-1579.png:[blocks in formation] 2. One who favors such heavy duties on certain goods as almost to amount to a prohibition of their importation; a protectionist. prō-hib'-It-Ive, prō-hib-It-ör-y, a. [English prohibit ; -ive, -ory.J 1. Serving to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; forbid ding, excluding; implying prohibition. "We have been obliged to guard it from foreign competition by very strict prohibitory laws."-Burke: Regicide Peace, let. 3. 2. Exce ive; as, a prohibitory price. pro-Id-on-ite, s. [Gr. pro before; eidon . 2 aor. of * eidő =to see, and suff. -ite ( Min .); Ital. proidon . ina .] Min.: A name given by Scacchi to some exhala- tions at the eruption of Vesuvius, 1872. Composi tion: Fluoride of silicon; formula, SiF4. visible rights; thus, the stock of a company is held pro in divi so by all the partners in trust. pro-jěct', v . t . & i. [Lat. project us , pa. par. of projicio to throw forward: pro =forward, and jacio =to throw; Fr. projeter ; Sp. proyectar ; Ital. pro- gettare.] IMG:content-1580.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To cast or revolve in the mind; to plot, to scheme; to contrive, to plan. "What sit we then projecting peace and war?" Milton : P. L., ii. 329. *4. To mark out; to shape, to form, to arrange, (Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , v. 2.) B. Intransitive: 1. To shoot out or forward; to jut out; to be prominent; to extend beyond something else. "Projecting bo es supporting the eyebrows."- Athe- næum, March 4, 1882. prō-hib-It, v . t . [Latin prohibit us , pa. par. of prohibeo to prevent, to forbid; lit. to have or hold in one's way: pro =before, and habeo =to have; Fr. prohiber : Sp. & Port. prohibir ; Ital. proibire .] pro-jec-tile, a . & 8. [Fr.] "Often at midnight, when most fancies come, Would some such airy project visit me." IMG:content-1581.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1582.png:[blocks in formation] ics which treats of the motion of bodies thrown or driven by an impelling force from the surface of the earth, and affected by gravity and the resist- nal projection, a straight line pa ing through the point and perpendicular to the plane of projection. In the divergent projection a straight line drawn through the point and the projecting point. (2) Projecting plane of a straight line: In the orthogonal projection, a plane pa ing through the straight line, and perpendicular to the plane of projection. In the divergent projection, a plane pa ing through the line and the projecting point. projecting-cone, s. A cone whose directrix is the given line, and whose vertex is the projecting point. IMG:content-1583.png:[blocks in formation] *prōk'-ing, pr . par . or a. [PROKE.] *proking-spit, s . A rapier. "With a broad Scot, or proking - spit of Spaine." Bishop Hall : Satires , iv. 4. prolapse prō-lăpse', v. i. [PROLAPSE, s.] To fall down or out; to project too much. (Generally a medical term.) *prō-lăp-sion, s . [Latin prolapsio , from pro lapsus , pa. par. of prolabor .) [PROLAPSE, s.) A falling down; a prolapse.