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he imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose. Poetic license. See License, n., 4.

Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry. "The planetlike music of poetry." Sir P. Sidney. She taketh most delight In music, instruments, and poetry.…

The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts. Bouvier.

A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution. Erskine.

To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.

nstrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary. Shak. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts ix. 5.

See Primrose. [Obs.] "She was a primerole." Chaucer.

The genus of plants including the primrose (Primula vera).

Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulaceæ), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.

gulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design. He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry. Locke.

The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding. The proceedings of the high commission. Macaulay.

The prosencephalon.

A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

venues in a province; as, the procurator of Judea. Procurator fiscal (Scots Law), public prosecutor, or district attorney.

A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.

uperior tribunal, directed to an inferior court, commanding the latter to cease from the prosecution of a suit depending before it. Blackstone.

Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition. Cudworth.

That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner. Coleridge.

A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer. "An estimable prosaist." I. Taylor.