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The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.

Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.

One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection.

One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.

Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.

ty, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates were nominated and the platform adopted. Among the chief articles in the platform are those demanding direct primaries, preferential primaries…

To prog. [Obs.] P. Fletcher.

Proem. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.

One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.

The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions. Tillotson.

One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.

That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.

Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. (R. C. Ch.) See under Index.

To lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn. [Obs.] Chaucer. The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms. Chapman.

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. [Obs.] Holland.

Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.

rection of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.

Design; contrivance; projection. [Obs.] Clarendon.

One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.