Chapter Prophet Elm to Provis of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Protocol (Mr. Peter), the attorney in Edinburgh employed by Mrs. Margaret Bertram of Singleside.—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (time, George II.).

Protosebastos (The) or Sebastocrator, the highest state officer in Greece.—Sir W. Scott: Count Robert of Paris (time, Rufus).

Protospathaire (The), or general of Alexius Comnenus emperor of Greece. His name is Nicanor.—Sir W. Scott : Count Robert of Paris (time, Rufus).

Proud (The). Tarquin II. of Rome was called Superbus (reigned B.C. 535-516, died 496).

Otho IV. kaiser of Germany was called “The Proud”(1175,1209–1218).

Proud Duke (The), Charles Seymour duke of Somerset. His children were not allowed to sit in his presence; and he spoke to his servants by signs only (*-1748).

Proudfute (Oliver), the boasting bonnet-maker at Perth.

Magdalen or Maudie Proudfute, Oliver’s widow.—Sir W. Scott: Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.)

Prout (Father), the pseudonym of Francis Mahoney, a humorous writer in Fraser’s Magazine, etc. (1805–1866).

Proverbial Philosophy. Thoughts in a sort of verse, once very popular, by Martin Tupper, in three series (1838,1842.1867).

Proverbs (The Book of), one of the poetical books of the Old Testament, which may conveniently be subdivided into five parts—

1. The introduction (chs.i.-ix).

2. The proverbs of Solomon (chs.x.-xxiv.). (See ch.x. i). .

3. Proverbs complied in the reign of Hezekiah (chs. xxv.-xxiv.). (See ch. xxv. i.)

4.The words of Agar (ch. xxx.).

5. The words to king Lemuel by his mother (ch. xxxi.).

Provis, the name assumed by Abel Magwitch, Pip’s benefactor. He was a convict, who had made a fortune, and whose chief desire was to make pip a gentleman. —Dickens: Great Expectations (1860).