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 Proscript: m. ipte: f. Proscribed; attainted; exposed, or designed vnto slaughter; also, publikely sold, or set vnto sale.

Proscription: f. A Proscription; Attainder; Outlarie; a designing, or exposing vnto slaughter; also, Portsale, or publike sale.

Proscrire. To proscribe; attaint; outlaw; to expose, or designe vnto slaughter; also, to publish, or proclaime the sale of.

Prose: f. Prose; any stile which is not Verse, or Meetre.  Proses. Part of the Masse deuised by the Abbot of S. Galle. De peu de chose peu de prose: Prov. For small matters little strife; about small things but small adoe.

Proselite: m. A Proßelite; a stranger turned to our fashion, conuerted to our faith.

Prosenette: m. as Proxenete. Proserie: f. A place appointed for the nourishment of poore people.

Prosne. as Prone. Prosner. A Priest to preach, or to pronounce, the prone; looke Prone. Prosopopée: f. A disguising; representing of persons, faining of a person to speake.

Prospective: f. The Prospectiue, Perspectiue, or Optick Art; also, a (bounded) prospect; a (limitted) view, or suruey.  En prospective. Openly, to the view, for a shew, to be seene.

Prosperément. Prosperously, successiuely, happily, luckily, fortunately.

Prosperer. To prosper, thriue, haue or bring lucke; to giue successe vnto.

Prosperité: f. Prosperitie, happinesse, good lucke, fortune, or succeße in.

Prostates. Certaine kernells in the necke of the bladder.

Prosterné: m. ée: f. Prostrated, fallen flat, layed along; foyled, felled, borne, caste, or strucken downe.

Prosternement: m. A prostrating, or laying along; a felling, foyling, ouerthrowing.

Prosterner. To prostrate, lay flat or along; to foyle, fell, cast, beare, strike downe.

Prostitué: m. ée: f. Prostituted, abandoned, set to sale, abused, or made common by euerie one that will pay.

Prostituer. To prostitute, abandon, set open to, make common for, euerie one; to play the whore with, or subiect vnto the pleasure of, any man for money.

Prostitution: f. A prostitution; a setting vnto sale, an abandoning to the vse of any man for money.

Prostration: f. A prostrating; a deiection, or falling at the feet of; or, as Prosternement. Prosyllogisme. A second Syllogisme prouing the first.

Protecole: m. The first Draught, or Copie of a Deed, Contract, Jnstrument, Euidence; or a short Register kept thereof; also, a Precedent for the drawing of a Patent, or Deed; also, a booke of such Precedents; also, a prompter of one that makes an Oration, or acts a Part, in publike.

Protecteur: m. A protector, maintainer, defendor.

Protection: f. Protection, safegard, publike maintenance, or defence.

Protectrice: f. A protectrix, or defendresse.

Protegé: m. ée: f. Protected, couered, shielded, saued, defended. Proteger. To protect, shield, couer, saue, keepe harmelesse, defend.

Protelé: m. ée: f. Shifted off, put backe, driuen or chased away; delayed.

Proteler. To shift off, put backe, driue or chase away; also, to delay, deferre, protract.

Protenotaire: m. A Pregnotarie, or principall Notarie.

Proterve: com. Froward, wayward, peruerse, curst, snappish, peeuish; also, prowd, sawcie, malapert, arrogant, impudent.

Protervement. Peruersely, waywardly, frowardly; also, prowdly, sawcily, impudently.

Protervie: f. Frowardnesse, peruersenesse, curstneße, peeuishnesse, waywardnesse; also, pride, sawcineße, malapertnesse, arrogancie, impudencie.

Protervité: f. as Protervie. Protestant. Protesting, denouncing, openly auerring or declaring.  Protestant de trahison. Protesting, or crying, that he was betrayed.

Protestation: f. A protestation; an open declaration, auerment, or denouncement of an opinion, or purpose.

Protesté. Protested; openly affirmed, earnestly auerred, solemnly auouched.

Protester. To protest; to affirme earnestly, auerre solemnely, auouch or denounce openly; also, to deny the payment of a demaunded debt; or to returne a Bill of debt vnpayed.  Protester de tous despens, dommages, & interests. To challenge, demaund, or insist vpon satisfaction for his dammages, and a restorall of all his costs and charges.

Prothocolle, & Protocole. as Protecole. Protodiables: m. The first, or chiefest of Diuels.

Proto-martyre. The first Martyr.

Protonotaire: m. A Pregnotarie, principall Notarie, chiefe Scribe; (A title proper, and peculiar to the Greffier civil de la Cour de Parlement de Paris.) Prototype: m. The first forme, type, modell, or patterne of.

Prou, for Proufit; whence;  Bon prou leur face. Much good may it doe them; let them follow their owne courses, or take their owne wayes.

Prou. Much, greatly, enough.

Provature: f. A kind of greene Cheese made in Jtalie, of the milke of Buffles.

Prouë: f. The prow, or forepart of a Ship; also, a point aduancing it selfe out of a building as the prow out of a Ship.

Provect: m. cte: f. Well growne in age, or of good yeares; well studied in an Art; forward, or farre gone, in the course of Arts.

Provençales. Long slops, Marriners long breeches.

Provende: f. Prouender; also, a Prebendrie.

Provenir. To ißue, come, step, or spring forth; to proceed from.

Proverbe: m. A prouerbe; adage, old said saw, short, and wittie saying.

Proverbial: m. ale: f. Prouerbiall, of a Prouerbe.

Prouësse: f. Prowesse, courage, dowtinesse, valour, cheualrie; a valiant act, a small action.

Proufit: m. Profit, gaine, lucre; increase of, or aduantage in, estate.