PPage 668
- English Word Proscribe Definition To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters.
- English Word Proscribed Definition of Proscribe
- English Word Proscriber Definition One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.
- English Word Proscribing Definition of Proscribe
- English Word Proscript Definition A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict.
- English Word Proscript Definition One who is proscribed.
- English Word Proscription Definition The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.
- English Word Proscription Definition The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition.
- English Word Proscriptional Definition Proscriptive.
- English Word Proscriptionist Definition One who proscribes.
- English Word Proscriptive Definition Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.
- English Word Prosdist Definition One skilled in prosody.
- English Word Prose Definition The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.
- English Word Prose Definition Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
- English Word Prose Definition A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
- English Word Prose Definition Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
- English Word Prose Definition Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
- English Word Prose Definition To write in prose.
- English Word Prose Definition To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
- English Word Prose Definition To write prose.