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PROOF n. 10 definitions

Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. For whatsoever mother wit or art Could work, he put in proof. Spenser. You shall have many proofs to show your skill. Ford. Formerly, a very rude mode of ascertaining the strength of spirits was prac…

To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.

Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved. Boyle. -- Proof"less*ly, adv.

PROOSTRACUM; PROOESTRACUM n.

The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone.

PROOTIC; PROOETIC a. 2 definitions

A proötic bone.

PROP n. 3 definitions

A shell, used as a die. See Props.

PROPAEDEUTIC; PROPAEDEUTICAL a.

Of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing beforehand.

PROPAEDEUTICS n.

The preliminary learning connected with any art or science; preparatory instruction.

PROPAGABLE a. 2 definitions

Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.

PROPAGANDA n. 3 definitions

The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623- 1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.

PROPAGANDISM n.

The art or practice of propagating tenets or principles; zeal in propagating one's opinions.

PROPAGANDIST n.

A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles. "Political propagandists." Walsh.

PROPAGATE v. 6 definitions

To cause to continue or multiply 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.

PROPAGATION n. 2 definitions

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.

A runner terminated by a germinating bud.

urring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.

Same as Propinyl.