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 officers which receiue the rents belonging to, and almes bestowed on, them.  Procureur d'office, ou de Seigneurie. The Atturney of a Moyen Iusticier, who not hauing any Fisque, cannot haue a Procureur fiscal, and therefore differs from;  Procureur de la Seigneurie de la Iustice; (which is) as Procureur fiscal. Prodenou: m. A rope which compasseth the saile-yard of a Ship.

Prodigal: m. ale: f. Prodigall, vnthriftie, riotous, lauish, wastfull, excessiue in expence.

Prodigalement. Prodigally, vnthriftily, riotously, lauishly, wastfully.

Prodigalisé: m. ée: f. Prodigalized, lauished, wasted, spent riotously, disposed of vnthriftily, squandered away.

Prodigaliser. To prodigalize it, spend vnthriftily, wast, lauish, consume, or squander all away.

Prodigalité: f. Prodigalitie, riot, vnthriftineße, lauish, or wastfull expence.

Prodige: m. A prodigie; wonder, strange signe, vnnaturall accident, maruelous thing.

Prodiger. as Prodiguer. Prodigieusement. Prodigiously; monstrously, wonderfully, most strangely or vnnaturally.

Prodigieux: m. euse: f. Prodigious; wonderous, monstrous, most vnnaturall or out of course.

Prodigue: com. Prodigall, vnthriftie, lauish, wastfull, riotous, excessiue, or outragious in expence.  Prodigue, & grand beuveur de vin n'a du sien ne four, ne moulin: Pro. The drunken spendthrift wasts his best possessious.

Prodigeur. To riot, lauish, mispend, play the vnthrift, wast, consume, let flye all he hath.

Proditeur: m. A traitor, betrayer; bewrayer, discloser; a treacherous, or disloyall fellow.

Prodition: f. Prodition, treason, treacherie, disloyaltie, extreame falsehood.

Prodrome: m. The fore-runner, or newes-bringer of another mans comming; a preparer of the way for another; whence;  Prodromes. The winds which rise a little before the Dog dayes.

Production: f. A production; a proofe, euidence, or testimonie produced in iustification, or confirmation of a cause.

Produict: m. icte: f. Produced; yeelded, brought forth; alledged, or shewed, in proofe of.

Produire. To produce; yeeld, bring forth; cite bookes, vrge proofes, alledge reasons; also, to furnish with leacherie, to helpe a man to a wench for money; (th' office, and practise of bawdes.)

Proë. Looke Prouë. Proëme: m. A Proeme, Preface, Prologue.

Proësme: m. The same; also, a neighbor.

Profanateur: m. A prophaner, violater, vnhallower, of.

Profanation: f. A prophanation, or prophaning; a violating, an vnhallowing.

Profane: com. Prophane; lay, temporall, worldlie; wicked, vnholie, vngodlie.

Profané: m. ée: f. Prophaned; vnhallowed, violated; turned from a holie to a common, from a diuine to an humane, vse.

Profanemént: m. as Profanation.

Profanément. Prophanely; temporally; wickedly, vngodly; worldling-like. Profaner. To prophane, vnhallow, violate; put holie things to vnholie vses.

Proferer. To produce, alledge, deliuer; speake, pronounce, vtter.

Professeur: m. A profeßor; a publike Reader in Vniuersities, or Schooles.

Profession: f. A profession, facultie, qualitie, vocation, calling; also, an open confession, protestation, aduowall, acknowledgement; also, a Reading, or professing in publike Schooles.

Professoirement. Professiuely, or by profession.

Profez: m. Professed Monkes; or, more generally, such as, hauing made their vowes, are admitted of a religious Order.

Proficiat: m. A fee, or beneuolence bestowed on Bishops, in manner of a welcome, immediately after their installments.

Profilé: m. ée: f. Wrought, or done, in thread; also, purfled.

Profit: m. Profit, gaine, lucre, increase of, aduantage in, estate; commoditie, benefit, vtilitie, cheuissance.  À profit de mesnage. Roundly, soundly, throughly, without trifling or dalliance, to purpose, with a witnesse.  Profit sans vertu ne vaut vn festu: Prov. Gaine without vertue is not worth a feskue.  Au despendre gist le profit: Pro. Jn spending thrift consists; discreet expence makes many a poore man rich.  Chascun tire à son profit: Pro. Euerie one inclines, or hath an eye, to that which may inrich him.

Profitable: com. Profitable, gainefull, beneficiall, commodious.  Hommes profitables. Vassalls, of whom a Lord both hath his reuenue, and makes other vse to his profit.  Seigneur profitable. The possessor, or occupant of an Jnheritance; he that, to make the vtmost of it, keepes it in his owne hands.

Profiter. See Proufiter. Profiterolle: f. as Pourfiterolle; and in the Plurall (Profiterolles) be the small vayles, as drinking money, points, pinnes, &c, gotten by a valet or groome in his maisters seruice.

Profond: m. de: f. Profound, high, deepe; of much capacitie, of great receit; secret; vnsatiable, bottomelesse.

Profondé: m. ée: f. Deepened; pierced, or searched farre into; pressed, or sunke downe into the bottome of.

Profondement. Profoundly, deepely, highly; secretly; vnsatiably; without any bottome.

Profonder. To sound, search, pierce, or goe deepe into; to diue, or sinke vnto the bottome of; to preße downe, or put into the deepe.

Profondeur: f. Profunditie, profoundnesse, depth, deepeneße; height; vnsatiableneße.

Profondité. The same.

Profuseur: m. A powrer out; a profuse, excessiue, lauish, riotous, wastfull spender.

Progenie: f. A progenie, off-spring, brood, ißue, generation.

Progenier. To progenerate, procreate, propagate; breed, beget, ingender, bring forth, young ones.

Progeniteur: m. A progenitor, auncestor, forefather.

Prognostication: f. A Prognostication, fore-telling, fore-shewing; an argument, or signe, of a future thing; a guessing, by signes, of things to come.

Prognostique. as Prognostication.