Word Meanings - MILTONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic 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.
• 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
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PROSECTOR
  One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• 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.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• PROSEMINATION
  Propagation by seed. Sir M. Hale.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• PROSEMINARY
  A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution. T. Warton.
• NON PROSEQUITUR
  A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi.
• 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.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• BEPROSE
  To reduce to prose. "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.
• PROSE
  A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence. (more info) forward, straight on, for proversus; pro forward + versus, p. p. of 1. The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical