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An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period. Called also Protosaurus.

Peevishness; petulance. [Obs.] Fuller.

To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow. He protest that his measures are pacific. Landor. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Shak.

Protestantism. [R.]

One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Chris…

Protestant. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being protestant, especially against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the Protestants.

Like a Protestant; in conformity with Protestantism. [R.] Milton.

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.

See Prosthesis. Dunglison.

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

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

Office of a prothonotary.