Definition of prose

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Prose (a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life..

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Indictment :: Indictment (n.) The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury..
Lawyer :: Lawyer (n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates..
Epigram :: Epigram (n.) An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose..
Follow :: Follow (v. t.) To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
Nol-pros :: Nol-pros (v. t.) To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.
Non Pros. :: Non pros. () An abbreviation of Non prosequitur.
Transprose :: Transprose (v. t.) To change from prose into verse; to versify; also, to change from verse into prose..
Transversion :: Transversion (n.) The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose..
Rhetoric :: Rhetoric (n.) The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose..
Prosaist :: Prosaist (n.) A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer.
Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution..
Proselytizing :: Proselytizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Proselytiz.
Miltonic :: Miltonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose..
Proseman :: Proseman (n.) A writer of prose.
Diligent :: Diligent (a.) Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.
Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected..
Nol. Pros. :: Nol. pros. () An abbrev. of Nolle prosequi.
Persecution :: Persecution (n.) A carrying on; prosecution.
Cadence :: Cadence (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse..
Discouragement :: Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement..
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