Proller to Prompt
Proller
(Proll"er) n. Prowler; thief. [Obs.] Chapman.
Prolocutor
(Prol`o*cu"tor) n. [L., from proloqui, p. p. prolocutus, to speak out; pro for + loqui to speak.]
1. One who speaks for another. Jeffrey.
2. The presiding officer of a convocation. Macaulay.
Prolocutorship
(Prol`o*cu"tor*ship), n. The office of a prolocutor.
Prolog
(Pro"log) n. & v. Prologue.
Prologize
(Pro"lo*gize) v. i. [Gr. . See Prologue.] To deliver a Prologue. [R.] Whewell.
Prologizer
(Pro"lo*gi`zer) n. One who prologizes. [R.]
Prologue
(Pro"logue) n. [F., fr. L. prologus, fr. Gr. fr. to say beforehand; before + to say. See Logic.]
1. The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's
"Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance
2. One who delivers a prologue. [R.] Shak.
Prologue
(Pro"logue), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prologued ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prologuing.] To introduce with
a formal preface, or prologue. [R.] Shak.
Prolong
(Pro*long") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prolonged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prolonging.] [F. prolonger, L.
prolongare; pro before, forth + longus long. See Long, a., and cf. Prolongate, Purloin. ]
1. To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.
2. To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days.
Prolong awhile the traitor's life.
Shak.
The unhappy queen with talk prolonged the night.
Dryden. 3. To put off to a distant time; to postpone. Shak.
Prolongable
(Pro*long"a*ble) a. Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care.
Each syllable being a prolongable quantity.
Rush. Prolongate
(Pro*lon"gate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prolongated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prolongating.] [L. prolongatus,
p. p. of prolongare. See Prolong.] To prolong; to extend in space or in time. [R.]
Prolongation
(Pro`lon*ga"tion) n. [F. prolongation.]
1. The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction. Bacon.
2. That which forms an additional length.
Prolonge
(Pro*longe") n. [F. See Prolong.] (Field Artillery) A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes
used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
Prolonger
(Pro*long"er) n. One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.
Prolongment
(Pro*long"ment) n. Prolongation.
