Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing at card parties, by which
after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table,
and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the
next table. -- Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous disorder
characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles.
-- Pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. -- Pro*gress"ive*ness, n.
Progue (?), v. i. To prog. [Obs.] P. Fletcher.
Progue, n. A sharp point; a goad. [Scot. & Local, U. S.] -- v. t. To
prick; to goad. [ Scot. & Local, U. S.].
Pro"heme (?), n. Proem. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pro*hib"it (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prohibited; p. pr. & vb. n.
Prohibiting.] [L. prohibitus, p. p. of prohibere to prohibit; pro
before, forth + habere to have, hold. See Habit.]
1. To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from
eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing
a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men
from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.
Prohibit was formerly followed by to with the infinitive, but is now
commonly followed by from with the verbal noun in -ing.