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- English Word Prolate Definition To utter; to pronounce.
- English Word Prolation Definition The act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance; pronunciation.
- English Word Prolation Definition The act of deferring; delay.
- English Word Prolation Definition A mediaeval method of determining of the proportionate duration of semibreves and minims.
- English Word Prolatum Definition A prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.
- English Word Proleg Definition One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.
- English Word Prolegate Definition The deputy or substitute for a legate.
- English Word Prolegomena Definition of Prolegomenon
- English Word Prolegomenary Definition Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.
- English Word Prolegomenon Definition A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.
- 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.