Word Meanings - PINDARICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.

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• PROSECUTE
  To institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to prosecute for public offenses. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To follow after. Latimer.
• PROSECUTRIX
  A female prosecutor.
• PROSENCEPHALON
  The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain. The cerebrum. Huxley.
• PINDARICAL
  Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.
• PROSELYTISM
  1. The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party. They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree. Burke. 2. Conversion to a religion,
• PROSECUTABLE
  Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.
• EXTRAVAGANT
  + vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak. 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained;
• PROSENCHYMA
  A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.
• PROSEMAN
  A writer of prose.
• PINDARIC
  Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. -- n.
• PROSELYTE
  A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye compass sea and land to make
• PROSECTOR
  One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.
• PROSECUTOR
  The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government. Blackstone. (more info) 1. One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.
• PROSELYTIZER
  One who proselytes.
• EXTRAVAGANTNESS
  The state of being extravagant or in excess; excess; extravagance.
• PROSEMINATION
  Propagation by seed. Sir M. Hale.
• PROSEMINARY
  A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution. T. Warton.
• PROSENCEPHALIC
  Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.
• EXTRAVAGANTLY
  In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.
• PROSECUTION
  1. The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war. Keeping a sharp eye on her domestics
• NON PROSEQUITUR
  A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi.
• UNPROSELYTE
  To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte. Fuller.
• NOLLE PROSEQUI
  Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants.
• BEPROSE
  To reduce to prose. "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.
• PROSE
  A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence. (more info) forward, straight on, for proversus; pro forward + versus, p. p. of 1. The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical