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Word Meanings - PROSEMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A writer of prose.

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  • PROSECUTE
    To institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to prosecute for public offenses. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To follow after. Latimer.
  • PROSECUTRIX
    A female prosecutor.
  • PROSENCEPHALON
    The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain. The cerebrum. Huxley.
  • PROSELYTISM
    1. The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party. They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree. Burke. 2. Conversion to a religion,
  • PROSECUTABLE
    Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.
  • WRITER
    1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
  • PROSENCHYMA
    A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.
  • PROSEMAN
    A writer of prose.
  • PROSELYTE
    A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye compass sea and land to make
  • WRITERSHIP
    The office of a writer.
  • PROSECTOR
    One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.
  • PROSECUTOR
    The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government. Blackstone. (more info) 1. One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.
  • PROSELYTIZER
    One who proselytes.
  • PROSEMINATION
    Propagation by seed. Sir M. Hale.
  • PROSEMINARY
    A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution. T. Warton.
  • PROSENCEPHALIC
    Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.
  • PROSECUTION
    1. The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war. Keeping a sharp eye on her domestics
  • PROSELYTIZE
    To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte. One of those whom they endeavor to proselytize. Burke.
  • PROSER
    1. A writer of prose. 2. One who talks or writes tediously. Sir W. Scott.
  • PROSE
    1. Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition. 2. Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
  • NON PROSEQUITUR
    A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • UNDERWRITER
    One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
  • UNPROSELYTE
    To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte. Fuller.
  • NOLLE PROSEQUI
    Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants.
  • NEWS-WRITER
    One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.
  • BEPROSE
    To reduce to prose. "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.
  • TYPEWRITER
    1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper. 2. One who uses such an instrument.

 

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