prosopopeia, prosopopeia (1 as y), prosopopey

[Lat. prosopopœia, from Gr. prosopopoiia = personification; prosopopoieō = to personify: prosopon =a face, a person, and poieō = to make.] Rhet.: A figure by which things are represented as persons, or inanimate objects as animate beings, or by which an absent person is represented as speaking, or a deceased person as alive and present. It is more extensive than personification. "Of the prosopopœia , or personification there are two kinds: one, when action and character are attributed to fictitious, irrational, or even inanimate objects; the other, when a probable but fictitious speech is a igned to a real character."- Lowth : Lectures; Gregory, vol. i. *pros-o-pos-cô-pỹ, s . [Gr. prosopon a face, a person, and skopeō to see.] A kind of divination or magic by which the face or person of one absent or dead was made to appear in a mirror. "As when in mirror bright we see A face by proso pos copy ." The Poet Banter'd (1702), p. 10. pros-pěct, subst . [Lat. prospectus =a look out, a distant view, from prospectus , pa. par. of prospicio =to look forward: pro forward, and spicio =to look; Ital. pros pet to .] IMG:content-1633.png:[blocks in formation] II. Mining : Among gold-miners, what one finds in examining the first panful of earth. ( U S. ) "We got many good prospects ."- Mark Twain : Roughing It , p. 443. pro-spěct', v. i. & t. [PROSPECT, 8.] A. Intransitive: 1. To look forward or toward. "The mountaynes prospecting toward the north."Eden. 2. To look around; to seek, to search, to explore. "He prospected around for a more propitious place of settlement."-London Daily Telegraph. 3. Specifically, in mining, to search for mines or deposits of gold or silver. "This is a prospecting party, which, being interpreted, means that they are on the lookout for ore."- Literary World, June 3, 1848. B. Transitive : Mining: To examine or explore, in search of gold or silver. "I shall be able to spare time for prospecting other parts of the Company's property." -Money Market Review, Feb. 20, 1886, p. 326.