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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Epigram :: Epigram (n.) An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose..
Transprose :: Transprose (v. t.) To change from prose into verse; to versify; also, to change from verse into prose..
Versifier :: Versifier (n.) One who converts into verse; one who expresses in verse the ideas of another written in prose; as, Dr. Watts was a versifier of the Psalms..
Prosecuted :: Prosecuted (imp. & p. p.) of Prosecut.
Nolle Prosequi :: Nolle prosequi () Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants..
Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
Pursuable :: Pursuable (a.) Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted..
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..
Air :: Air (n.) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria..
Proselytizer :: Proselytizer (n.) One who proselytes.
Neophyte :: Neophyte (n.) A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism..
Pursue :: Pursue (v. i.) To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor..
Prosaism :: Prosaism (n.) That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner.
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony..
Proselytized :: proselytized (imp. & p. p.) of Proselytiz.
Prosy :: Prosy (superl.) Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.
Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain..
Appellor :: Appellor (n.) The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime..
Shortly :: Shortly (adv.) In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose..
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit..
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