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By prerogative.

To squander. Thackeray.

Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.

In a profligate manner.

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

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

The deputy or substitute for a legate.

To prolong; to extend in space or in time. [R.]

The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction. Bacon.

To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.

The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. South.

One who promulgates or publishes. Dr. H. More.

ly by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.

The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray.

Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.

One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.

To prorogue. [R.]

The act of counting in duration; prolongation. [Obs.] South.

h was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal. Wharton. Let him put me to my purgation. Shak.

Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic. -- n. (Med.)