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▪ I. † ˈprocinct, n.1 Obs.
[ad. med.L. procinct-us, -a (Du Cange), for L. præcinctus precinct: see pro-1 3. So OF. procincte, proceinte (13th c.), variants of pourceinte: see purcinct.]
= precinct n.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 401 In whiche procincte [L. In hoc precinctu Walliæ] were wonte to be thre courtes. 1448in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 355 Aboute the gardynes and alle the procincte of the place. 1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 11 §1 Within the seid Towne of Grete Yernemuth and procincte therof. 1583in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 688 The scite, circuit, ambulance, and procinct of the late Priory. 1616Manif. Abp. of Spalato's Motives 34 A Prelacie thou hast here..of large procinct, and faire reuenue. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius xi. 265 For the priest..shall bear a rosy crown in his right hand, adhering to the rattle, in the very procinct of the pomp.
▪ II. † proˈcinct, n.2 Obs.
[ad. L. prōcinctus, vbl. n. f. prōcingĕre to gird up, equip, in phr. in prōcinctu in readiness for action.]
The condition of being prepared or equipped; readiness for action; only in in procinct, ready, prepared.
c1611Chapman Iliad xii. 89 And gaue vp each chariot and steed To their directors to be kept, in all procinct of warre, There, and on that side of the dike. a1639Wotton Let. in Reliq. (1651) 453 Being then in procinct of his travels. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 19 Warr he perceav'd, warr in procinct, and found Already known what he for news had thought To have reported. 1763C. Johnston Reverie II. 128 War! War in procinct! The comforts of Greatness. 1839Blackw. Mag. XLVI. 815 In short, all Rome, and at all times was ‘in procinct’.
▪ III. † proˈcinct, a. Obs.
Also 7 procint.
[ad. L. prōcinctus, pa. pple. of prōcingĕre to gird up, equip (pro-1 1 h): cf. succinct.]
Ready, prepared.
1618M. Baret Horsemanship i. xxxiii. 98 Many things are now become nocent and hurtfull to man, which at the first was procint and seruiceable to him. 1623Cockeram, Procint, readie. 1773J. Ross Fratricide iii. 21 (MS.) And from a bubbling fount, procinct and pure, Takes proper portion and dilutes the draught. |