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pro-nowns', v. [-xouxced (-nownsf), -xou.vcixg.] To utter articulately, speak distinctly; to utter formally, officially, or solemnly; to speak rhetorically; to declare or affirm. [F. prononcer, L. pronunciare, pro and nunciare, to announce.] — Pronounce''able, a. — Pronounced', -nownsf, a. Strongly marked decided. [F. prononce".] — Pronoun'cer, n. — Pronouncing, p. a. Teaching or indicating pronunciation. — Pronun cia,tion, -shl-a'- shun, n. Act of, etc.; utterance: mode of uttering words or sentences. (Rhet.) Art or manner of uttering a discourse with propriety and gracefulne . [F. pronontiation, L. prommtiatio.] — Pronuifcia- — tive, -shT-a-tiv, a. Of, or pert, to, pronunciation. Pronun'ciamen'to, -sT-a-men'to. -ciamiento. -notm'- the-a/ml-en-to, n. A proclamation; manifesto formal announcement or declaration. [Sp. pronunciasfin, cube, full moon, f66t cow, oil PROPHET Proof, Proofle , etc. See under Prove. Prop, prop, [propped (propt), propping.] To support or prevent from falling by placing something under or against; to sustain, support, stay, uphold.— n. That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests for support stay; staff; pillar. [Ga., a prop, also to prop, 01). proppe, a stay, jnoppen, to stay.] Propagate, prop^a-jjat, To continue or multiply by generation or succe ive reproduction; to cause to reproduce itself to cause to spread or exte-nd to spread from person to person, extend the knowledge of, diffuse, di eminate, promote. — v. To have young or i ue to be produced or multiplied by generation. [L. propagare, -gatum, orig. to peg down, propagate by layers, propago, a layer; pact.] — Prop'aga'tion, n. Act of propagating; the spreading or extension of anything; generation; extension; increase. — Prop'aga/tor, n. — Prop'agable, a. — Propaganda, -gan'da. n. A societv in Rome, charged with the management of the Rom. Cath. mi ions, and entitled Congregatio de Propaganda Fide; hence, any organized effort to make proselytes. — Propagan'dism, -dizm, n. Art or practice of propagating tenets or principles. — Propagandist, n. One who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles.