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▪ I. prolate, a.|ˈprəʊleɪt|
[ad. L. prōlāt-us, pa. pple. of prōferre to bring forward, produce, prolong, f. prō, pro-1 + ferre to carry.]
1. Geom. Lengthened in the direction of the polar diameter: said of a spheroid formed by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis. Cf. oblate a. prolate cycloid: see cycloid 1.
1694Halley in Phil. Trans. XXXIII. 121 His Compression of a Shell of Earth into a prolate Spheroide. 1753Short ibid. XLVIII. 12 It will degenerate into the prolate spheroid, whose poles are A and B. 1830Kater & Lardner Mech. ix. 111 The elliptical solid, which is called a prolate spheroid. 1867Denison Astron. without Math. 7 Drawn out at the poles, like an egg with two small ends, which is called a prolate spheroid.
2. Extended or extending in width; fig. widely spread.
1846Dana Zooph. iv. (1848) 75 By the prolate mode of growth, the polyps gradually extend outward, and new buds open, from time to time, a short distance from the edge. 1882R. G. Wilberforce Bp. Wilberforce III. i. 3 That we had no means of repressing prolate heresy.
Hence ˈprolately adv., ˈprolateness.
1767Witchell in Phil. Trans. LVII. 38 The prolateness of his figure. 1866B. H. Kennedy Public School Latin Primer 110 The Infinitive stands... 4. Prolately, after Prolative Verbs and Adjectives. 1874Coues Birds N.W. 373 Some [eggs] are ellipsoidal, or prolately spheroidal, having both ends of the same size and shape.
▪ II. † proˈlate, v. Obs.
[ad. L. prōlāt-āre: see prolatation.]
trans. To ‘bring out’, utter, pronounce; esp. to lengthen out in utterance.
1601Deacon & Walker Answ. to Darel 63 [A] bare commanding word, prolated and vttered abroad in the ayre with a vanishing sound. 1630B. Jonson New Inn iii. i, Peck.{ddd}I wish he may be foundred. Fly. Foun-der-ed. Prolate it right. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 12 The other delights in long breathed accents, which he prolates with such pauses, that before he be at a period of his sentence, one may reach a second thought. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. 261 For the sake of what was deemed solemnity, every note was prolated in one uniform mode of Intonation. 1808J. Moser Don Quix. in Barcelona i. iv, Many people..prolate words which create no admiration at all. |