1. To protract; to prolong; to extend. [Obs.]
He prorogued his government.
Dryden. 2. To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage. Shak.
3. To end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business.
Parliament was prorogued to [meet at] Westminster.
Bp. Hall.
The Parliament was again prorogued to a distant day.
Macaulay. Syn. — To adjourn; postpone; defer. See Adjourn.
Proruption
(Pro*rup"tion) n. [L. proruptio, fr. prorumpere, proruptum, to break forth; pro forth + rumpere
to break.] The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Prosaic
(Pro*sa"ic Pro*sa"ic*al) a. [L. prosaius, from prosa prose: cf. F,. prosaïque. See Prose.]
1. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a
prosaic composition. Cudworth.
2. Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person. Ed. Rev.
— Pro*sa"ic*al*ly, adv. — Pro*sa"ic*al*ness, n.
Prosaicism
(Pro*sa"i*cism) n. The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style. [R.] Poe.
Prosaism
(Pro"sa*ism) n. That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner. Coleridge.
Prosaist
(Pro"sa*ist) n. A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer. "An estimable prosaist." I. Taylor.
Prosal
(Pro"sal) a. Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Proscenium
(Pro*sce"ni*um) n.; pl. Proscenia [L., fr. Gr. before + a tent, a wooden stage, the stage.
See Scene.]
1. (Anc. Theater) The part where the actors performed; the stage.
2. (Modern Theater) The part of the stage in front of the curtain; sometimes, the curtain and its framework.
Proscolex
(||Pro*sco"lex) n.; pl. Proscolices [NL., fr. Gr. before + a worm.] (Zoöl.) An early larval
form of a trematode worm; a redia. See Redia.
Proscribe
(Pro*scribe") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Proscribed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Proscribing.] [L. proscribere,
proscriptum, to write before, to publish, proscribe; pro before + scribere to write. See Scribe. The
sense of this word originated in the Roman practice of writing the names of persons doomed to death,
and posting the list in public.]
1. To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed
each other's adherents.
Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed.
Spenser. 2. To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters.
The Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized in the famous Council of Nice.
Waterland.
