Thursday, March 29, 2018

DEFINITION OF PROSE


Prose
The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.

Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.

A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.

Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.

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

To write in prose.

To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.

To write prose.

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