Word Meanings - PROMPTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suggestion; incitement; prompting. Shak. Coleridge.

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• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• PROMPT
  L. promptus, properly, brought forth , hence, visible, evident, at hand, ready, quick, -- p. p. of promere to take 1. Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision
• PROMPTUARY
  Of or pertaining to preparation. Bacon.
• PROMPT-NOTE
  A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.
• INCITEMENT
  1. The act of inciting. 2. That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke. From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope. Syn. -- Motive; incentive; spur; stimulus; impulse;
• PROMPTNESS
  1. Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action. 2. Cheerful willingness; alacrity.
• PROMPTER
  1. One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action. 2. One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.
• PROMPTITUDE
  The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience. Men of action, of promptitude, and of courage. I. Taylor.
• PROMPTURE
  Suggestion; incitement; prompting. Shak. Coleridge.
• IMPROMPT
  Not ready. Sterne.
• MISSUGGESTION
  Wrong or evil suggestion. Bp. Hall.
• IMPROMPTU
  Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse. (more info) readiness, at hand; in in + promptus visibility, readiness, from
• OVERPROMPT
  Too prompt; too ready or eager; precipitate. -- O`ver*prompt"ness, n.
• AUTOSUGGESTION
  Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, esp. in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.