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- English Word Prolepsis Definition A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
- English Word Prolepsis Definition A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
- English Word Prolepsis Definition An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
- English Word Prolepsis Definition The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.
- English Word Proleptic Definition Alt. of Proleptical
- English Word Proleptical Definition Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative.
- English Word Proleptical Definition Previous; antecedent.
- English Word Proleptical Definition Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
- English Word Proleptically Definition In a proleptical manner.
- English Word Proleptics Definition The art and science of predicting in medicine.
- English Word Proletaire Definition One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.
- English Word Proletaneous Definition Having a numerous offspring.
- English Word Proletarian Definition Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.
- English Word Proletarian Definition A proletary.
- English Word Proletariat Definition The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.
- English Word Proletariate Definition The lower classes; beggars.
- English Word Proletaries Definition of Proletary
- English Word Proletary Definition A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.
- English Word Prolicide Definition The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
- English Word Proliferate Definition To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.
- English Word Proliferate Definition To produce zooids by budding.
- English Word Proliferation Definition The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.
- English Word Proliferation Definition The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.
- English Word Proliferous Definition Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae.
- English Word Proliferous Definition Producing young by budding.
- English Word Proliferous Definition Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
- English Word Proliferous Definition Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
- English Word Prolific Definition Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.
- English Word Prolific Definition Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
- English Word Prolific Definition Proliferous.