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In a profligate manner.

The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

Defeat; rout; overthrow. [Obs.] Bacon.

Quality of being profluent; course. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Flowing forward, [R.] "In the profluent stream." Milton.

Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." Milton.

In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.

Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent. [Obs.] "Profulgent in preciousness." Chaucer.

The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc. "The vast profundity obscure." Milton.

with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. Milton.

In a profuse manner.

Extravagance; profusion. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury.

The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting. Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles Rowe.

Profuse; lavish; prodigal.[Obs.]

ies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks. [Low] A perfect artist in progging for money. Fuller. I have been endeavoring to prog for you. Burke.

To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race. [R.] Landor.

The act of begetting; propagation. [R.]

An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather. And reverence thee their great progenitor. Milton.

The state of being a progenitor.