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2761 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POWERFUL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Having great moral power; forcible to persuade or convince the mind; as a powerful reason or argument.
2762 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREDICTION.1 (Noah Webster)
PREDICTION, n. [L. proedictio.] A foretelling; a previous declaration of a future event; prophecy. The fulfillment of the predictions of the prophets is considered to be a strong argument in favor of the divine origin of the Scriptures.
2763 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREFACE.2 (Noah Webster)
PREFACE, v.t. To introduce by preliminary remarks; as, to preface a book or discourse. The advocate prefaced his argument with a history of the case.
2764 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREJUDGE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To judge in a cause before it is heard, or before the arguments and facts in the case are fully known.
2765 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREJUDICATE.5 (Noah Webster)
PREJUDICATE, v.i. To form a judgment without due examination of the facts and arguments in this case.
2766 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREJUDICE.2 (Noah Webster)
… or arguments which are necessary to a just and impartial determination. It is used in a good or bad sense. Innumerable are the prejudices of education; we are …
2767 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREPONDERATE.8 (Noah Webster)
By putting every argument on one side and the other, into the balance, we must form a judgment which side preponderates.
2768 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESS.2 (Noah Webster)
… of arguments or of cares, troubles and business.
2769 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESS.34 (Noah Webster)
When arguments press equally in matters indifferent, the safest method is to give up ourselves to neither.
2770 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREVAIL.10 (Noah Webster)
4. To gain or have predominant influence; to operate with effect. These reasons, arguments or motives ought to prevail with all candid men. In this sense, it is followed by with.
2771 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREVAIL.12 (Noah Webster)
6. To succeed. The general attempted to take the fort by assault, but did not prevail. The most powerful arguments were employed, but they did not prevail.
2772 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREVALENCE.2 (Noah Webster)
The duke better knew what kind of arguments were of prevalence with him.
2773 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRINCIPAL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Chief; most important or considerable; as the principal topics of debate; the principal arguments in a case; the principal points of law; the principal beams of a building; the principal productions of a country.
2774 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROBABILITY.2 (Noah Webster)
… of argument on one side, inclining the mind to receive it as the truth, but leaving some room for doubt. It therefore falls short of moral certainty, but produces …
2775 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROBABLE.3 (Noah Webster)
That is accounted probable, which has better arguments producible for it than can be brought against it.
2776 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROCEED.4 (Noah Webster)
2. To pass from one point, stage or topic to another. The preacher proceeds from one division of his subject, and the advocate from one argument, to another.
2777 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROLIX.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Long; extended to a great length; minute in narration or argument; applied only to discourses, speeches and writings; as a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.
2778 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROPOSITION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In logic, one of the three parts of a regular argument; the part of an argument in which some quality, negative or positive, is attributed to a subject; as, “snow is white;” “water is fluid;” “vice is not commendable.”
2779 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTION.1 (Noah Webster)
… , study, argument or inquiry.
2780 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROTRACT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To draw out or lengthen in time; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a discussion; to protract a war or a negotiation.