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- English Word Promontories Definition of Promontory
- English Word Promontory Definition A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape.
- English Word Promontory Definition A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.
- English Word Promorphologist Definition One versed in the science of promorphology.
- English Word Promorphology Definition Crystallography of organic forms; -- a division of morphology created by Haeckel. It is essentially stereometric, and relates to a mathematical conception of organic forms. See Tectology.
- English Word Promote Definition To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.
- English Word Promote Definition To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.
- English Word Promote Definition To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.
- English Word Promoted Definition of Promote
- English Word Promoter Definition One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.
- English Word Promoter Definition Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like.
- English Word Promoter Definition One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition.
- English Word Promoter Definition An informer; a makebate.
- English Word Promoting Definition of Promote
- English Word Promotive Definition Tending to advance, promote, or encourage.
- English Word Promottion Definition The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.
- English Word Promove Definition To move forward; to advance; to promote.
- English Word Promover Definition A promoter.
- English Word Prompt Definition A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.
- English Word Prompt Definition To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
- English Word Prompt Definition To suggest; to dictate.
- English Word Prompt Definition To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.
- English Word Prompt-book Definition The book used by a prompter of a theater.
- English Word Prompt-note Definition A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.
- English Word Prompted Definition of Prompt
- English Word Prompter Definition One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.
- English Word Prompter Definition One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.
- English Word Prompting Definition of Prompt
- English Word Promptitude Definition The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience.
- English Word Promptly Definition In a prompt manner.