1. To support or prevent from falling by placing something under or against; as, to prop a fence or an old building. NWAD PROP.2
2. To support by standing under or against. NWAD PROP.3
Till the bright mountains prop th’ incumbent sky. NWAD PROP.4
3. To support; to sustain; in a general sense; as, to prop a declining state. NWAD PROP.5
I prop myself upon the few supports that are left me. NWAD PROP.6
1. That may be spread or extended by any means, as tenets, doctrines or principles. NWAD PROPAGABLE.2
Bonaparte selected a body to compose his Sanhedrim of political propagandists. NWAD PROPAGANDIST.2
1. To continue or multiply the kind by generation or successive production; applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate any species of fruit tree. NWAD PROPAGATE.2
2. To spread; to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light. NWAD PROPAGATE.3
3. To spread from person to person; to extend; to give birth to, or originate and spread; as, to propagate a story or report. NWAD PROPAGATE.4
4. To carry from place to place; to extend by planting and establishing in places before destitute; as, to propagate the christian religion. NWAD PROPAGATE.5
5. To extend; to increase. NWAD PROPAGATE.6
Griefs of my own lie heavy in my breast, NWAD PROPAGATE.7
Which thou wilt propagate. NWAD PROPAGATE.8
6. To generate; to produce. NWAD PROPAGATE.9
Superstitious notions, propagated in fancy, are hardly ever totally eradicated. NWAD PROPAGATE.10
1. The act of propagating; the continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as the propagation of animals or plants. NWAD PROPAGATION.2
There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. NWAD PROPAGATION.3
2. The spreading or extension of any thing; as the propagation of sound or of reports. NWAD PROPAGATION.4
3. The spreading of any thing by planting and establishing in places before destitute; as the propagation of the gospel among pagans. NWAD PROPAGATION.5
4. A forward or promotion. NWAD PROPAGATION.6
1. One that continues or multiplies any species of animals or plants. NWAD PROPAGATOR.2
2. One that spreads or causes to circulate, as a report. NWAD PROPAGATOR.3
3. One that plants and establishes in a country destitute; as a propagator of the gospel. NWAD PROPAGATOR.4
4. One that plants, originates or extends; one that promotes. NWAD PROPAGATOR.5
To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force. The wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by the force of gun-powder; mill wheels are propelled by water or steam; the blood is propelled through the arteries and veins by the action of the heart. [This word is commonly applied to material bodies.] NWAD PROPEL.2
To lean towards; to incline; to be disposed in favor of any thing. [Little used.] NWAD PROPEND.2
1. Preconsideration; attentive deliberation. [Little used.] NWAD PROPENDENCY.2
1. Bent of mind, natural or acquired; inclination; in a moral sense; disposition to any thing good or evil, particularly to evil; as a propensity to sin; the corrupt propensity of the will. NWAD PROPENSION.2
It requires critical nicety to find out the genius or propensions of a child. NWAD PROPENSION.3
2. Natural tendency; as the propension of bodies to a particular place. NWAD PROPENSION.4
[In a moral sense, propensity is now chiefly used.] NWAD PROPENSION.5
1. Peculiar; naturally or essentially belonging to a person or thing; not common. That is not proper, which is common to many. Every animal has his proper instincts and inclinations, appetites and habits. Every muscle and vessel of the body has its proper office. Every art has it proper rules. Creation is the proper work of an Almighty Being. NWAD PROPER.2
2. Particularly suited to. Every animal lives in his proper element. NWAD PROPER.3
3. One’s own. It may be joined with any possessive pronoun; as our proper son. NWAD PROPER.4
Our proper conceptions. NWAD PROPER.5
Now learn the difference at your proper cost. NWAD PROPER.6
[Note. Own is often used in such phrases; “at your own proper cost.” This is really tautological, but sanctioned by usage, and expressive of emphasis.] NWAD PROPER.7
4. Noting an individual; pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; as a proper name. Dublin is the proper name of a city. NWAD PROPER.8
5. Fit; suitable; adapted; accommodated. A thin dress is not proper for clothing in a cold climate. Stimulants are proper remedies for debility. Gravity of manners is very proper for persons of advanced age. NWAD PROPER.9
In Athens, all was pleasure, mirth and play NWAD PROPER.10
All proper to the spring and sprightly May. NWAD PROPER.11
6. Correct; just; as a proper word; a proper expression. NWAD PROPER.12
7. Not figurative. NWAD PROPER.13
8. Well formed; handsome. NWAD PROPER.14
Moses was a proper child. Hebrews 11:23. NWAD PROPER.15
9. Tall; lusty; handsome with bulk. [Low and not used.] NWAD PROPER.16
10. In vulgar language, very; as proper good; proper sweet. [This is very improper, as well as vulgar.] NWAD PROPER.17
Proper receptacle, in botany, that which supports only a single flower or fructification; proper perianth or involucre, that which incloses only a single flower; proper flower or corol, one of the single florets or corollets in an aggregate or compound flower; proper nectary, separate form the petals and other parts of the flower. NWAD PROPER.18
1. In a strict sense. NWAD PROPERLY.2
The miseries of life are not properly owing to the unequal distribution of things. NWAD PROPERLY.3
1. Tallness. [Not in use.] NWAD PROPERNESS.2
2. Perfect form; handsomeness. NWAD PROPERNESS.3
1. A peculiar quality of any thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; called by logicians an essential mode. Thus color is a property of light; extension and figure are properties of bodies. NWAD PROPERTY.2
2. An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art or bestowed by man. The poem has the properties which constitute excellence. NWAD PROPERTY.3
3. Quality; disposition. NWAD PROPERTY.4
It is the property of an old sinner to find delight in reviewing his own villainies in others. NWAD PROPERTY.5
4. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing; ownership. In the beginning of the world, the Creator gave to man dominion over the earth, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air, and over every living thing. This is the foundation of man’s property in the earth and in all its productions. Prior occupancy of land and of wild animals gives to the possessor the property of them. The labor of inventing, making or producing any thing constitutes one of the highest and most indefeasible titles to property. Property is also acquired by inheritance, by gift or by purchase. Property is sometimes held in common, yet each man’s right to his share in common land or stock is exclusively his own. One man may have the property of the soil, and another the right of use, by prescription or by purchase. NWAD PROPERTY.6
5. Possession held on one’s own right. NWAD PROPERTY.7
6. The thing owned; that to which a person has the legal title, whether in his possession or not. It is one of the greatest blessings of civil society that the property of citizens is well secured. NWAD PROPERTY.8
7. An estate, whether in lands, goods or money; as a man of large property or small property. NWAD PROPERTY.9
8. An estate; a farm; a plantation. In this sense, which is common in the United States and in the West Indies, the word has a plural. NWAD PROPERTY.10
The still-houses on the sugar plantations, vary in size, according to the fancy of the proprietor or the magnitude of the property. NWAD PROPERTY.11
I shall confine myself to such properties as fall within the reach of daily observation. NWAD PROPERTY.12
9. Nearness or right. NWAD PROPERTY.13
Here I disclaim all my paternal care, NWAD PROPERTY.14
Propinquity and property of blood. NWAD PROPERTY.15
10. Something useful; an appendage; a theatrical term. NWAD PROPERTY.16
I will draw a bill of properties. NWAD PROPERTY.17
High pomp and state are useful properties. NWAD PROPERTY.18
11. Propriety. [Not in use.] NWAD PROPERTY.19
Literary property, the exclusive right of printing, publishing and making profit by one’s own writings. No right or title to a thing can be so perfect as that which is created by a man’s own labor and invention. The exclusive right of a man to his literary productions, and to the use of them for his own profit, is entire and perfect, as the faculties employed and labor bestowed are entirely and perfectly his own. On what principle then can a legislature or a court determine that an author can enjoy only a temporary property in his own productions? If a man’s right to his own productions in writing is as perfect as to the productions of his farm or his shop, how can the former by abridged or limited, while the latter is held without limitation? Why do the productions of manual labor rank higher in the scale of rights or property, than the productions of the intellect? NWAD PROPERTY.20
1. A foretelling; prediction; a declaration of something to come. As God only knows future events with certainty, no being but God or some person informed by him, can utter a real prophecy. The prophecies recorded in Scripture, when fulfilled, afford most convincing evidence of the divine original of the Scriptures, as those who uttered the prophecies could not have foreknown the events predicted without supernatural instruction. 2 Peter 1:19-21. NWAD PROPHECY.2
2. In Scripture, a book of prophecies; a history; as the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chronicles 9:29. NWAD PROPHECY.3
3. Preaching; public interpretation of Scripture; exhortation or instruction. Proverbs 31:1. NWAD PROPHECY.4
I hate him, for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. 1 Kings 22:8. NWAD PROPHESY.2
1. To foreshow. [Little used.] NWAD PROPHESY.3
1. In Scripture, to preach; to instruct in religious doctrines; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to exhort. 1 Corinthians 13:9; Ezekiel 37:4, 9. NWAD PROPHESY.5
1. One that foretells future events; a predicter; a foreteller. NWAD PROPHET.2
2. In Scripture, a person illuminated, inspired or instructed by God to announce future events; as Moses, Elijah, David, Isaiah, etc. NWAD PROPHET.3
3. An interpreter; one that explains or communicates sentiments. Exodus 7:1. NWAD PROPHET.4
4. One who pretends to foretell; an imposter; as a false prophet. Acts 13:6. NWAD PROPHET.5
School of the prophets, among the Israelites, a school or college in which young men were educated and qualified for public teachers. These students were called sons of the prophets. NWAD PROPHET.6
1. Unfolding future events; as prophetic dreams. NWAD PROPHETIC.2
It has of before the thing foretold. NWAD PROPHETIC.3
And fears are oft prophetic of th’ event. NWAD PROPHETIC.4
In medicine, preventive; defending from disease. NWAD PROPHYLACTIC.2
The act of pledging, or drinking first and then offering the cup to another. NWAD PROPINATION.2
1. To expose. [Not used.] NWAD PROPINE.2
1. Nearness in place; neighborhood. NWAD PROPINQUITY.2
2. Nearness in time. NWAD PROPINQUITY.3
3. Nearness of blood; kindred. NWAD PROPINQUITY.4
To conciliate; to appease one offended and render him favorable; to make propitious. NWAD PROPITIATE.2
Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, NWAD PROPITIATE.3
The god propitiate and the pest assuage. NWAD PROPITIATE.4
1. The act of appeasing wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious. NWAD PROPITIATION.2
2. In theology, the atonement or atoning sacrifice offered to God to assuage his wrath and render him propitious to sinners. Christ is the propitiation for the sins of men. Romans 3:25; 1 John 2:2. NWAD PROPITIATION.3
1. Disposed to be gracious or merciful; ready to forgive sins and bestow blessings; applied to God. NWAD PROPITIOUS.2
2. Favorable; as a propitious season. NWAD PROPITIOUS.3
1. Favorableness; as the propitiousness of the season or climate. NWAD PROPITIOUSNESS.2
A thick odorous substance having some resemblance to wax and smelling like storax; used by bees to stop the holes and crevices in their hives to prevent the entrance of cold air, etc. Pliny represents it as the third coat; the first he calls commosis; the second pissoceros; the third, more solid than the others, he calls propolis. NWAD PROPOLIS.2
This account of the propolis may not be perfectly correct, as authors do not agree in their descriptions of it. NWAD PROPOLIS.3
One that makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition. NWAD PROPONENT.2
1. The comparative relation of any one thing to another. Let a man’s exertions be in proportion to his strength. NWAD PROPORTION.2
2. The identity or similitude of two ratios. Proportion differs from ratio. Ratio is the relation which determines the quantity of one thing from the quantity of another, without the intervention of a third. Thus the ratio of 5 and 10 is 2; the ratio of 8 and 16 is 2. Proportion is the sameness or likeness of two such relations. Thus 5 is to 10, as 8 to 16, or A is to B, as C is to D; that is, 5 bears the same relation to 10, as 8 does to 16. Hence we say, such numbers are in proportion. NWAD PROPORTION.3
Proportion, in mathematics, an equality or ratios. NWAD PROPORTION.4
The term proportion is sometimes improperly used for ratio. The ratio between two quantities, is expressed by the quotient of one divided by the other; thus, the ratio of 10 to 5 is 2, and the ratio of 16 to 8 is 2. These two equal ratios constitute a proportion, which is expressed by saying, 10 is to 5 as 16 is to 8; or more concisely, 10: 5:: 16: 8. [See Ratio.] NWAD PROPORTION.5
3. In arithmetic, a rule by which, when three numbers are given, a fourth number is found, which bears the same relation to the third as the second does to the first; or a fourth number is found, bearing the same relation to the second as the first does to the third. The former is called direct, and the latter, inverse proportion. NWAD PROPORTION.6
4. Symmetry; suitable adaptation of one part or thing to another; as the proportion of one limb to another in the human body; the proportion of the length and breadth of a room to its highth. NWAD PROPORTION.7
Harmony, with every grace, NWAD PROPORTION.8
Place in the fair proportions of her face. NWAD PROPORTION.9
5. Equal or just share; as, to ascertain the proportion of profit to which each partner in a company is entitled. NWAD PROPORTION.10
6. Form; size. [Little used.] NWAD PROPORTION.11
7. The relation between unequal things of the same kind, by which their several parts correspond to each other with an equal augmentation and diminution, as in reducing and enlarging figures. NWAD PROPORTION.12
[This more properly belongs to ratio.] NWAD PROPORTION.13
Harmonical or musical proportion, is when, of three numbers, the first is to the third as the difference of the first and second to the difference of the second and third. Thus 2.3.6. are in harmonical proportion; for 2 is to 6 as 1 to 3. So also four numbers are harmonical, when the first is to the fourth, as the difference of the first and second is to the difference of the third and fourth. Thus, 24.16.12.9. are harmonical, for 24 : 9 :: 8 : 3. NWAD PROPORTION.14
Arithmetical and geometrical proportion. [See Progression, No. 4.] NWAD PROPORTION.15
Reciprocal proportion, an equality between a direct and a reciprocal ratio. Thus, 4 : 2 :: 1/3 : 1/6. [See Reciprocals, and Reciprocal ratio.] NWAD PROPORTION.16
In the loss of an object, we do not proportion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it. NWAD PROPORTION.18
1. To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body. NWAD PROPORTION.19
Proportional, in chimistry, a term employed in the theory of definite proportions, to denote the same as the weight of an atom or a prime. [See Prime.] NWAD PROPORTIONAL.2
Proportionals, in geometry, are quantities, either linear or numeral, which bear the same ratio or relation to each other. NWAD PROPORTIONAL.3
The connection between the end and means is proportionate. NWAD PROPORTIONATE.2
Punishment should be proportionate to the transgression. NWAD PROPORTIONATE.3
1. That which is offered or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design, terms or conditions proposed; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage; proposals for subscription to a loan or to a literary work. NWAD PROPOSAL.2
2. Offer to the mind; as the proposal of an agreeable object. NWAD PROPOSAL.3
1. To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance or adoption; as, to propose a bill or resolve to a legislative body; to propose terms of peach; to propose a question or subject for discussion; to propose an alliance by treaty or marriage; to propose alterations or amendments in a law. NWAD PROPOSE.2
2. To offer or present for consideration. NWAD PROPOSE.3
In learning any thing, as little as possible should be proposed to the mind at first. NWAD PROPOSE.4
To propose to one’s self, to intend; to design; to form a design in the mind. NWAD PROPOSE.5
[Propose is often used for purpose; as I propose to ride to New York to-morrow. Purpose and propose are different forms of the same word.] NWAD PROPOSE.7
1. That which is proposed; that which is offered for consideration, acceptance or adoption; a proposal; offer of terms. The enemy made propositions of peace; the propositions were not accepted. NWAD PROPOSITION.2
2. In logic, one of the three parts of a regular argument; the part of an argument in which some quality, negative or positive, is attributed to a subject; as, “snow is white;” “water is fluid;” “vice is not commendable.” NWAD PROPOSITION.3
3. In mathematics, a statement in terms of either a truth to be demonstrated, or an operation to be performed. It is called a theorem, when it is something to be proved; and a problem, when it is something to be done. NWAD PROPOSITION.4
4. In oratory, that which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; any thing stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration. NWAD PROPOSITION.5
5. In poetry, the first part of a poem, in which the author states the subject or matter of it. Horace recommends modesty and simplicity in the proposition of a poem. NWAD PROPOSITION.6
1. To propose; to offer for consideration; as, to propound a rule of action. NWAD PROPOUND.2
The existence of the church hath been propounded as an object of faith. NWAD PROPOUND.3
2. To offer; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question. NWAD PROPOUND.4
3. In congregational churches, to propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church. Persons intending to make public profession of their faith, and thus unite with the church, are propounded before the church and congregation; that is, their intention is notified some days previous, for the purpose of giving opportunity to members of the church to object to their admission to such communion, if they see cause. NWAD PROPOUND.5
1. A proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right. The grantees of Pennsylvania and Maryland and their heirs were called the proprietaries of those provinces. NWAD PROPRIETARY.2
2. In monasteries, such monks were called proprietaries, as had reserved goods and effects to themselves, notwithstanding their renunciation of all at the time of their profession. NWAD PROPRIETARY.3
1. Property; peculiar or exclusive right of possession; ownership. [This primary sense of the word, as used by Locke, Milton, Dryden, etc. seems not to be nearly or wholly obsolete. See Property.] NWAD PROPRIETY.2
2. Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; consonance with established principles, rules or customs; justness; accuracy. Propriety of conduct, in a moral sense, consists in its conformity to the moral law; propriety of behavior, consists in conformity to the established rules of decorum; propriety in language, is correctness in the use of words and phrases, according to established usage, which constitutes the rule of speaking and writing. NWAD PROPRIETY.3
3. Proper state. NWAD PROPRIETY.4
To contend for; to defend; to vindicate. [Little used.] NWAD PROPUGN.2
The act of driving away or repelling; the keeping at a distance. NWAD PROPULSATION.2
The act of driving forward. NWAD PROPULSION.2
Pro rata, [L.] in proportion. NWAD PROPULSION.3
Pro re nata, [L.] according to exigencies or circumstances. NWAD PRORE.2
1. Continuance in time or duration; a lengthening or prolongation of time; as the prorogation of something already possessed. [This use is uncommon.] NWAD PROROGATION.2
2. In England, the continuance of parliament from one session to another, as an adjournment is a continuance of the session from day to day. This is the established language with respect to the parliament of Great Britain. In the United States, the word is, I believe, rarely or never used; adjournment being used not only in its etymological sense, but for prorogation also. NWAD PROROGATION.3
1. To protract; to prolong. NWAD PROROGUE.2
He prorogued his government. NWAD PROROGUE.3
2. To defer; to delay; as, to prorogue death. NWAD PROROGUE.4
[In the foregoing senses, the word is now rarely used.] NWAD PROROGUE.5
3. To continue the parliament from one session to another. Parliament is prorogued by the king’s authority, either by the lord chancellor in his majesty’s presence, or by commission, or by proclamation. NWAD PROROGUE.6
The act of bursting forth; a bursting out. NWAD PRORUPTION.2
Pertaining to prose; resembling prose; not restricted by numbers; applied to writings; as a prosaic composition. NWAD PROSAIC.2
1. To doom to destruction; to put one out of the protection of law, and promise a reward for his head. Sylla and Marius proscribed each other’s adherents. NWAD PROSCRIBE.2
2. To put out of the protection of the law. NWAD PROSCRIBE.3
Robert Vere, earl of Oxford, was banished the realm and proscribed. NWAD PROSCRIBE.4
3. To denounce and condemn as dangerous and not worthy of reception; to reject utterly. NWAD PROSCRIBE.5
In the year 325, the Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized by the council of Nice. NWAD PROSCRIBE.6
4. To censure and condemn as utterly unworthy of reception. NWAD PROSCRIBE.7
5. To interdict; as, to proscribe the use of ardent spirits. NWAD PROSCRIBE.8