Proboscis monkey. (Zoˆl.) See Kahau.
Pro*ca"cious (?), a. [L. procax, -acis, fr. procare to ask, demand.]
Pert; petulant; forward; saucy. [R.] Barrow.
Pro*cac"i*ty (?), n. [L. procacitas.] Forwardness; pertness; petulance.
[R.] Burton.
||Pro*cam"bi*um (?), n. [NL. See Pro- , and Cambium.] (Bot.) The young
||tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have
||begun to be differentiated. Sachs.
Pro`cat*arc"tic (?), a. [Gr. &?; beginning beforehand. fr. &?; to begin
first; &?; before + &?; to begin; &?; intens. + &?; to begin: cf. F.
procatarctique. ] (Med.) Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial.
[Obs.]
The words procatarctic causes have been used with different
significations. Thus they have been employed synonymously with prime
causes, exciting causes, and predisposing or remote causes.
The physician inquires into the procatarctic causes.
Harvey.
||Pro`cat*arx"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; first beginning.] (Med.) The
||kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause.
||Quincy.
||Pro`ce*den"do (?), n. [Abl. of the gerundive of L. procedere. see
||Proceed.] (Law) (a) A writ by which a cause which has been removed on
||insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by
||certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be
||proceeded in there. (b) In English practice, a writ issuing out of
||chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving
||judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment. (c) A writ by which
||the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having
||been suspended. Tomlins. Burrill.
Pro*ce"dure (?), n. [F. procÈdure. See Proceed.] 1. The act or manner
of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
"The true procedure of conscience." South.
2. A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an
action or other legal proceeding. "Gracious procedures." I. Taylor.