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▪ I. † proˈvect, a. (n.) Obs.
[ad. L. prōvect-us advanced, pa. pple. of prōvehĕre: see next. Cf. obs. F. provect (1545 in Godef.).]
Advanced (in years); mature, adult. b. n. Something grown or become old.
1531Elyot Gov. i. iv, Litle infantes assayeth to folowe..the faictes and gesture of them that be prouecte in yeres. 1630Davenant Cruel Brother ii, Dull Caytife, leaue these abortiue Prouects, And talke in the newest fashion. 1636R. Brathwait Rom. Emp. Ep. Ded. A iij, It is the nature of some trees not to bring forth fruite until they come to be provect.
▪ II. provect, v.|prəʊˈvɛkt|
[f. L. prōvect-, ppl. stem of prōvehĕre to carry or conduct forward, to advance, f. prō, pro-1 1 + vehĕre to carry.]
†1. trans. To carry forward or onward. Obs.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 17 They were miraculously provected, and, as it were, carried along in the ayr. a1776R. James Diss. Fevers (1778) 103 A continual fever, which..is too often provected to malignity.
2. Philology. To change or ‘mutate’ a consonant in the direction of the sound-shift (lautverschiebung) formulated for Teutonic in Grimm's Law (law 17); esp. in Celtic, to change a voice consonant into a breath consonant of the same series (e.g. d to t, v to f).
1861Whitley Stokes Middle-Cornish Poem in Trans. Philol. Soc. App. 83 G is provected into h after y in y hyller (gyller). 1877Rhŷs Lect. Welsh Philol. ii. 85 As an initial, it [gw reduced to w] was some time or other modified from w to v, which was subsequently provected into f. 1879Rhŷs in Academy 23 Aug. 144 Even supposing..that the Teutons were by nature endowed with a sort of a lautverschiebung sense, whereby they provected the consonants of other nations. |