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- English Word Pro Definition A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.
- English Word Pro Definition For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with con.
- English Word Pro rata Definition In proportion; proportionately; according to the share, interest, or liability of each.
- English Word Pro thyalosoma Definition The investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.
- English Word Pro- Definition A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of, in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for; pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.
- English Word Proa Definition A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.
- English Word Proach Definition See Approach.
- English Word Proant Definition Provender or food.
- English Word Proatlas Definition A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.
- English Word Probabiliorism Definition The doctrine of the probabiliorists.
- English Word Probabiliorist Definition One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.
- English Word Probabilism Definition The doctrine of the probabilists.
- English Word Probabilist Definition One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.
- English Word Probabilist Definition One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable.
- English Word Probabilities Definition of Probability
- English Word Probability Definition The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood.
- English Word Probability Definition That which is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth.
- English Word Probability Definition Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5.
- English Word Probable Definition Capable of being proved.
- English Word Probable Definition Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely.