Prompt"-note` (?), n. (Com.) A memorandum of a sale, and time when
payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.
Promp"tu*a*ry (?), a. Of or pertaining to preparation. [R.] Bacon.
Promp"tu*a*ry, n. [L. promptuarium, fr. promptuarius belonging to
distribution, distributing: cf, F. promptuaire. See Prompt, a.] That
from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository.
Woodward.
Promp"ture (?; 135), n. [See Prompt, a.] Suggestion; incitement;
prompting. [R.] Shak. Coleridge.
Pro*mul"gate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Promulgated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Promulgating.] [L. promulgatus, p. p. of promulgare to promulgate; of
unknown origin. Cf. Promulge.] To make known by open declaration, as
laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of
a council.
Syn. -- To publish; declare; proclaim. See Announce.
Pro`mul*ga"tion (?), n. [L. promulgatio: cf. F. promulgation.] The act
of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of
the gospel. South.
Pro"mul*ga`tor (?), n. [L.] One who promulgates or publishes. Dr. H.
More.
Pro*mulge" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Promulged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Promulging (?).] [Cf. F. promulguer. See Promulgate.] To promulgate; to
publish or teach. Blackstone.
Extraordinary doctrines these for the age in which they were
promulged.
Prescott.
Pro*mul"ger (?), n. One who promulges or publishes what was before
unknown. Atterbury.
||Pro*mus"cis (?), n. [L., corruption of proboscis.] (Zoˆl.) The
||proboscis of hemipterous insects. See Illust. under Hemiptera.
||Pro*na"os (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; before + &?; temple.] (Arch.)
||The porch or vestibule of a temple.
Pro"nate (?), a. [L. pronatus, p. p. of pronare to bend forward. See
Prone.] Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees. Kane.
Pro*na"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. pronation.] (Physiol.) (a) The act of
turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward. (b) That
motion of the forearm whereby the palm or palmar, surface is turned
downward. (c) The position of the limb resulting from the act of
pronation. Opposed to supination.
Pro*na"tor (?), n. [NL.] (Anat.) A muscle which produces pronation.
Prone (?), a. [L. pronus, akin to Gr. &?;, &?;, Skr. pravana sloping,
inclined, and also to L. pro forward, for. See Pro-.]