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A creeping on.

Situated in front of the nasal chambers.

To prorogue. [R.]

The act of counting in duration; prolongation. [Obs.] South.

To protract; to prolong; to extend. [Obs.] He prorogued his government. Dryden.

The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

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

The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style. [R.] Poe.

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.

Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The part of the stage in front of the curtain; sometimes, the curtain and its framework. proscenium arch, the framework around the front of the stage.

An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. See Redia.

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents. Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. Spenser.

One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict. [R.]

The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. Every victory by either party had been followed by a sanguinary proscrip…

Proscriptive.

One who proscribes.

Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing. Burke. -- Pro*scrip"tive*ly, adv.