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The act of making a protest; a public avowal; a solemn declaration, especially of dissent. " The protestation of our faith." Latimer.

One who makes protestation; a protester.

One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration. Shak.

By way of protesting.

A changeable protozoan; an amoeba.

A song in celebration of a marriage. Drayton.

Same as Prothallus.

The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oöphoric generation of ferns, etc.

A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.

Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus.

A chief notary or clerk. " My private prothonotary." Herrick.

Office of a prothonotary.

Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

Same as Prothyalosoma.

One of the Protista.

A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals.

One of the Protista.

A combining form prefix signifying first, primary, primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan.

Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.