2. Being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything desirable; making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as,
a prosperous voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or nation.
By moderation either state to bear
Prosperous or adverse.
Milton. Syn. — Fortunate; successful; flourishing; thriving; favorable; auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate.
— Pros"per*ous*ly, adv. — Pros"per*ous*ness, n.
Prosphysis
(||Pros"phy*sis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. to + to grow.] (Med.) A growing together of parts; specifically,
a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball. Dunglison.
Prospicience
(Pro*spi"cience) n. [L. prospicientia, fr. prospiciens, p. pr. of prospicere. See Prospect.]
The act of looking forward.
Prostate
(Pros"tate) a.[Gr. standing before, fr. to set before; before + to set: cf. F. prostate.] (Anat.)
Standing before; — applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at
the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra. — n. The prostate gland.
Prostatic
(Pro*stat"ic) a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.
Prostatic catheter. (Med.) See under Catheter.
Prostatitis
(||Pros`ta*ti"tis) n. [NL. See Prostate, and -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the prostate.
Prosternation
(Pros`ter*na"tion) n. [F. See Prostration.] Dejection; depression. [Obs.] Wiseman.
Prosternum
(Pro*ster"num) n. [NL. See Pro- and Sternum.] (Zoöl.) The ventral plate of the prothorax
of an insect.
Prosthesis
(||Pros"the*sis) n. [L., fr. Gr. an addition, fr. to put to, to add; to + to put, place.]
1. (Surg.) The addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a
log or an eye; — called also prothesis.
2. (Gram.) The prefixing of one or more letters to the beginning of a word, as in beloved.
