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Of or pertaining to procrastination; dilatory.

To procrastinate. [Obs.]

Generating; producing; productive; fruitful; assisting in procreation. [R.] "His pendent bed and procreant cradle." Shak.

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

The act of begetting; generation and production of young. South.

Having the power to beget; generative. Sir M. Hale.

The power of generating.

One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.

Any species of small moths of the genus Procris. The larvæ of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves.

Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.

To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.

of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes.

See Procrustean.

Inflammation of the rectum.

Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani. Dunglison.

See Mesenteron.

To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent. Bp. Warburton.

Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. "The fogging proctorage of money." Milton.

Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.

Proctorial. [R.]