A royal pragmatic was accordingly passed.
Prescott.
Prag*mat"ic*al*ly (?), adv. In a pragmatical manner.
Prag*mat"ic*al*ness, n. The quality or state of being pragmatical.
Prag"ma*tism (?), n. The quality or state of being pragmatic; in
literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.
The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to
the pragmatism of the history.
A. Murphy.
Prag"ma*tist (?), n. One who is pragmatic.
Prag"ma*tize (?), v. t. To consider, represent, or embody (something
unreal) as fact; to materialize. [R.] "A pragmatized metaphor." Tylor.
||Prai`ri`al" (?), n. [F., fr. prairie meadow.] The ninth month of the
||French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It
||began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire.
Prai"rie (?), n. [F., an extensive meadow, OF. praerie, LL. prataria,
fr. L. pratum a meadow.] 1. An extensive tract of level or rolling
land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually
characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the
Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.
From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the
northland.
Longfellow.