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Serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal cause of disease.

Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude. Thus much may serve by way of proem. Swift.

The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.

Introductory; prefatory; preliminary. [R.] Hammond.

The addition of a day to the lunar calendar. [R.] See Metemptosis.

Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.

Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.

Pert. to or designating any form of spark tube the electric discharge within which is used in spectroscopic observations.

the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes. Milton.

Same as Euphroe.

A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.

loits] of the ancient saints . . . do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. Barrow. The highest achievements of the human intellect. Macaulay.

itle annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.

e highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [Amer.] Bartlett.

Oölite or roestone; -- written also hammite. [Obs.]

pirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

ophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.