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Show PR As a hero who o PR his bafer foe now thefe affails, now thofe life, difdains to di 2. It is fometimes ufed as a familiar hy /./" blood I)i_)‘(f( val o 1{h'd on the ftrok Of lifted w eapons, and did wounds prevoke. Dryd O | beware nor, too prodigal of life Philips Sam peo a others {o fparing, as iff o i blood an I am prodigioufly pleafed with this joint volume Pope Prorpt'crousness. ». [. [from prodigious. Hnormoufnefs ; portentoufnels amazing qualities Pro'picy. n. gium #. / wafter a fpend grow rich become excefs Thou Ow'ft all thy loffes to the fates; but T Like wafteful prodigals, have caft awa My happinefs Denban?'s Sophy Let the wafteful prodigal be flain Dryden Proviga'LiTY fro driven out of all human methods Ben Fonfon. 7. prodigal. fufion ; waite [prodigalité Fr Extravagance excefliv pro liberality A fiveeter and lovelier gentleman ¥ram'd in t"e predigality of nature The fpacious world cannot again afford He that decries covetoufnefs thoul Shakefp not be hel an adverfary to him that oppofeth prodigality to th South The moft fevere cenfor cannot but be pleafe with the prodigality of his wit, though at the fam time he could have withed, that the mafter of i had been a better manager Dryden Pro'picaLLy. adv. [from prodigal.] Profufely; waftefully ; extravagantly 3 Charles The next in place and punifhment are they Who prodigally throw their fouls away Fools, who repining at their wretched ftate tentous; enormous ; monftrous ; amaz ingly great If e'er he have a child, abortive be it Prodigions and untimely brought to light | Shake[p An emiffion of immateriate virtues we are Httle doubtful to propound, it being fo prodigious but that it is conftantly avouched by many. Bacon It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear fky Brown Then entring at the gate Coneeal'd in clouds, prodigions to relate He mix'd, unmark'd, among the bufy throng. Dry The Rhone enters the lake, and brings alon Aadifon with it a predigious quantity of water It is a fcanda wher ther to chriftianity that i towns is a prodigious increafe in the numbe of houfes and inhabitants, fo little care fhould b Savift taken for churches Propi'ciousLy. adv. [from prodigious. 1. Amazingly; aftonithingly; pOI‘tfiDtoufly; enormoufly I do not mean abfolutely according to philofophick exaétnefs infinite, but only infinite or in numerabl great as to ws, or sheir number prodigioufl Ray en tbe Creation githnefs, become nature's prodigies, not her children Ben Fonjon Any thing aftonithing for good or bad Picl'd prieft, doft thou command me be thut out -1 do, thou moft wiurping proditor Shakefpeare Proprro'rious Latin. 1. Traiterous Not in ufe adj [fro proditor treacherous or brings But on the publick fpen Daniel Solid and conclufive charatters are emergen from the mind, and ftart out of children whe themfelves leaft think of it; for nature is grodirorious Wotton on Education PRODU'CE w a [#roduco, Latin produire, French. 1. To offer to the view or notice Produc you caufe 2. To exhibit to tlre publick brin Lord th fait forth your ftrong reafons Yaiab, xli. 21 Your parents did not groduce you much into th world, whereby you avorded many wrong fteps Swift 3. To bring as an evidence It feems not meet, nor wholefome to my place To be ¢reduc''d againtt-the Moor Shakefpeare 4. To bear to bring forth, as a vegetable This foil produces all forts of paim. trees. Sandys 5 T caufe ; t effect t generate beget. t Somewhat is produced of nothing; for lyes ar fufficient to breed opinjon, and opinion brings o fubftance Bacon They by imprudence mix' Produce prodigious births of body or mind. Miltox Thou all this good of evil thalt produce. Milton Clouds may rain, and rain produc Fruits in ber fofren'd foi Milton Obferving in ourfelves, that we can at pleafur move feveral parts of our bodies; the effeés alfo that natural bodies are able to produce in one an other, occurring every moment to our fenfes, w both thefe ways get the idea of power Locke Hinder light but from @&riking on porphyre, an its colours vanifh, it no longer produces any fuc ideas; upon the return of light; it groduces thef appearances again ‘This wonder of the fculptor's han Produc'd, his art was at a ftand Pro'puce z ou the sirichch prodycyPe,iTD;e f: 2. Amount ; profit; gain; emergen fu or quantity In Staffordthire after their lan they fow it with batley, allowing thres an acre Its common I,rodu;le{ is,'thiny };"fl. eh. ortimer Propu'cexT. #. /. [from Pproduce, that exhibits; one that offers If an inftrument be produced with Od proteftatt: in favour of the producent, and the adpverl%flanmf does not contradict, it fhall be conftrued to the af £ vantage of the producent Aflgfi Propu'cer # / [from produce Op that gencrates or produces By examining how I, that could contribute gp thing to mine own being, fhould be here, I ca to afk the fame queftion for my father, and fo am led in a dire¢t line to a firft producer that mug be more than man Sucklizg Whenever want of money, or want of defirei the confumer, make the price low, that imme diately reaches the firft groducer Propuv'ciBLE. adj. [from produce] 1. Such as may be exhibited There is no reafon producible to free the chift [fro the verb wil not with equal force be pr ducible for thofe heathens, to whom the gofpel yas Apt to make difcoveries 7 any thing y{,j You hoard not health fo lieving, whic perfidious To make this barb'rous bafe affaflinate 2 whic ian children and idiots from the blame of not b Now proditerious wretch ! what haft thou done Our paths with flow'rs the prodigally ftrows. Dryd ing; fuch as may feem a prodigy; por flug ow Propr'rron. n. /. [ proditio, Lat.] Ireafon ; treachery Ainfaorth PRO'DITOR. m, /[, [Lat.] . A traitor Not in ufe And loathing anxious life, fuborn'd their fate. Dry Nature not baunteous now, but lavith grows PRODI'GIOUS. adj. [prodigio/us, Lat prodigieux, French.] Amazing; aftonifh thei throug of mankind They would feem prodigies of learning. Spectator Nor in our wills fo loft, as to abando A friendfhip prodigally, of that pric Kin Addifon Mof We are not yet fo wretched in our fortunes As is the fenate and the people of Rome. Ben Fon/ I cannot well be thought fo- grodigally thirft of my fubjeéts blood, as to venture my own life poor comfort of prodigies and old women' Monfter Glanville It is not always fo obvious to diftinguifh between an act of liberality and act of prodigality and are reduce fables 2 Is generally Actente know the exact produce of it. Addifor's F;lsz Of broached mifchief to the unborn times. Shak The party oppofite to our fettlement, feem to b to cbfcure his former obfcurity, he puts on riot an zormgr."] This tax has already been fo often t:iedu'/f;:;{q Be no more an exhal'd meteor A prodigy of fear, and a porten a prodigal 5 fo Dryden, 1. Produ&t ; tha portent thrift A begga Latin. of nature, from which omens are drawn Bacon Pro'picar [prodige, French; prodi 1. Any thing out of the ordinary procef much life and blood wen together lab b perbole Denbam 10, for their country's goed PR Locke Addifon Thi noun, though accented on the laft fyl never revealed That is accounte Hommond probable, which has better arguments producibl againft it Man for it, than can be brought South war expreffions of the fathers are pro ducible in this cafe Decay of Piety z. Such as may be generated or made The falts producible, are the alcalis or fixt falts which feem ‘to have an antipathy with acid ones; Boyle Propv'cisLENESS. #. /o [from producible.] The ftate of being producible To confirm our dorine of the produciblin of falts, Helmont affures us, that by Paracelfus ma bodies foli circulatum fa particulflrl ftones be tran{muted into actual fait equlponde;ntl oy Pro'pucrt #. /. [productus, Latin; pr duit, French Milton accents it on th firt fyllable, Poge on the laft. 1. Somethin produce b nature, fruits, grain, metals The landholder, having nothing but whatktb product of hisland will yield, muft take the market rat Our Britith produsts are of fuch kinds and quan tities, as can tarn the balance of trade to our ad}a" tage If : : ; i { : u o ; t r t a q m f t Range i pelt fame feafon Sce thy'bright altar [ P s n r f a b S o t u o p Heap'd with th 2. Work a o f e comp abour r g ; m t o v h i w s o b o : Iai:}rof t fl i l o t u o p th ar d r w t reputation in and wife men l f e i n u e n c i T 3 Thefe are the produc ' P ' ta DM s g i r m OF thofe ill-mate u o p t a m 4. Refult; f o p r h o c e t fums adde of a trade at PropU CTILE. a({] [from fm{m'v?hic |