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Prolate
a.
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Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.
Prolate
v. t.
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To utter; to pronounce.
Prolation
n.
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The act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance; pronunciation.
Prolation
n.
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The act of deferring; delay.
Prolation
n.
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A mediaeval method of determining of the proportionate duration of semibreves and minims.
Prolata
pl.
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of Prolatum
Prolatum
n.
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A prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.
Proleg
n.
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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.
Prolegate
n.
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The deputy or substitute for a legate.
Prolegomenary
a.
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Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.
Prolegomena
pl.
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of Prolegomenon
Prolegomenon
n.
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A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.
Prolepsis
n.
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A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
Prolepsis
n.
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A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
Prolepsis
n.
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An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
Prolepsis
n.
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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.
Proleptic
a.
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Alt. of Proleptical
Proleptical
a.
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Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative.
Proleptical
a.
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Previous; antecedent.
Proleptical
a.
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Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
Proleptically
adv.
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In a proleptical manner.
Proleptics
n.
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The art and science of predicting in medicine.
Proletaire
n.
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One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.
Proletaneous
a.
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Having a numerous offspring.
Proletarian
a.
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Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.
Proletarian
n.
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A proletary.
Proletariat
n.
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The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.
Proletariate
n.
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The lower classes; beggars.
Proletaries
pl.
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of Proletary
Proletary
n.
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A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.