prodigaladj.n.adv.

Brit.

/ˈprɒdᵻɡl/, U.S.

/ˈprɑdəɡ(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s prodygal, 1500s prodygall, 1500s–1700s prodigall, 1500s– prodigal, 1700s proddigal, 1700s prodigale; Scottish pre-1700 portugall (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 prodigall, pre-1700 prothocall, pre-1700 prothogall, pre-1700 1700s– prodigal.

Origin: Apparently either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Or (iii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French prodigal ; French prodigue , -al suffix¹; Latin prōdigus , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: Apparently either < Middle French, French prodigal lavish, liberal, generous, recklessly extravagant (1412–13, but apparently rare before 16th cent.; French †prodigal ), or independently < Middle French prodigue or its etymon classical Latin prōdigus prodig adj. + -al suffix¹, after prodigality n. Compare post-classical Latin prodigalis lavish (c1540 in a British source; also prodigaliter , adverb (4th cent.)), Spanish prodigal (c1400; rare). Compare earlier prodigality n.With prodigal son (also daughter, child) at sense A. 2 compare Middle French, French enfant prodigue (1560), post-classical Latin filius prodigus (1523 or earlier in marginal note to Vulgate Luke 15).

A. adj.

a. Extravagant; recklessly wasteful of one's property or means. Also in extended use.

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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective]

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c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) i. 61 Ffor jt is lesse maistry tobe wrechit gredy and fast haldand, or tobe fule large and prodigal—na tobe wis liberale and large.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 88 Gif I be nobill, gentill and fre, A prodigall man I am so prysit.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 72 Yf the sone be prodygal & gyven to al vyce & foly.

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 83 The nobilitie is very gallant, prodigall in expences, spending more then their reuenues in diet and apparell.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 95 The elder and thrifty brother [represents] the Jew; the younger and prodigall, the Gentile.

1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 428 It is hard, if not impossible, for a prodigal Person to be guilty of no other Vice, but Prodigality.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa (1792) I. 215 Who, think you, does most injustice, a prodigal man, or a saving man?

1801 C. B. Brown Jane Talbot 164 Here is carpet and coverlet and curtains that might satisfy a prince; You are quite prodigal; and for whose accommodation is all this?

1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) vii Lothair was profuse, but he was not prodigal.

1914 Times 13 June 21/1 Some satisfaction may indeed be expressed by those economists who think that we have been too prodigal in the matter of coal exports.

1922 Times 23 Jan. 5/2 Two millions spread over two years is too much to get rid of the most extravagant and prodigal Government that this country ever saw.

1953 New Republic 9 Mar. 19/1 Masterfully economical as to words, Mr. Saroyan is..almost recklessly prodigal as to feeling.

1995 S. Schama Landscape & Memory ii. 102 For what little of the mixed hardwood stands had survived..at the end of the seventeenth century had been laid waste by greedy and prodigal princelings.

b. Wasteful of a resource, possession, asset, etc. Cf. sense A. 4b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective]

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1570 R. Sempill Regentis Trag. (single sheet) Cut of that Papist Prothogall of partis.

1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. iii. sig. I.iij^v Samocratius was in youthe, so prodigall of his Loue.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 149 Too late they pleased to be prodigal, both of Wealth and Life.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 185 No men are so strict exacters of modesty in a servant as those that are most prodigal of their own.

1751 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 1262 And he that is prodigal of his Hours, is, in Effect, a Squanderer of Money.

1773 Observ. State Poor 134 Perhaps no nation on earth is so prodigal of life as the English.

a1824 Ld. Byron Wks. (1898–1904) I. 406 Rough with his elders, with his equals rash, Civil to sharpers, prodigal of cash.

1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton i. 15 Nature is prodigal of human life.

1909 Times 25 Aug. 17/1 The heaviest car came in third, the remarkable feature being that it was a six-cylinder machine commonly supposed to be most prodigal of fuel.

1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 7 May 14 An over-earnest youth prodigal of his time spent in the, as yet, unrewarding cause of radicalism in Scotland.

2. Of a person: that has lived a reckless or extravagant life away from home, but subsequently made a repentant return. Also more generally and figurative: that has gone astray; errant, wayward; wandering. Frequently in prodigal son (also daughter, child), with allusion to Luke 15:11–32 (cf. sense B. 2). Also in extended use.See also prodigate adj., perhaps an error for prodigale.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal

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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] > characterized or marked by squandering

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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > one who repents > typical example of

prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508

prodigal1600

1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. &&.iiij^v The comyng agayne of this prodygal chylde whiche hath spent his substaunce.

1551 Bible (Matthew's) Luke xv. (heading) The parables of the loste shepe, of the groat that was loste, and of the prodigall sonne.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 96 Then hee compast a Motion of the Prodigall sonne, and married a Tinkers wife.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 16 A Clock, on which was represented, in painting, the Parable of the Prodigal Child.

1757 N. Owen Jrnl. 16 Aug. in E. Martin Jrnl. of Slave-Dealer (1930) 77 I say that these things will not keep him from the charectar of a proddigal sun, who hae spent his time idely abroad.

1796 J. Austen Let. 18 Sept. (1995) 12 My Father will be so good as to fetch home his prodigal Daughter from Town.

?1815 S. T. Coleridge MS Note in Poet. Wks. (2001) I. ii. 906 To shape, to soothe, Man's second Birth, And reconduct to Heaven Heaven's prodigal Heir!

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxii. 218 The prodigal son was evidently nervous of visiting the parental abode.

1897 B. Stoker Dracula xi. 143 The wicked wolf..was received and petted like a sort of vulpine prodigal son.

1933 Times 23 May 10/4 As the progenitor of all the visual arts architecture has of course handed on her qualities to her great family, of which painting has become the prodigal daughter.

1970 G. MacEwen in Tamarack Rev. 54 11 She pulled a prodigal hair from her eyebrow and tried to pinpoint what it was she wanted.

1995 Gazette (Montreal) 2 Dec. k7 This story of a cat who feels unappreciated at home and decides to travel the world and do some high living. Having squandered it all away, the prodigal puss comes home after a year and a half.

1998 Sunday Tel. 25 Jan. (Sport section) 6/8 Although the son has been prodigal, he knows his duty is to preserve the only tangible, non-political, form in which West Indianness exists.

3. Of a thing, event, action, etc.: wastefully lavish; characterized by or suggestive of reckless extravagance. N.E.D. states that in Shakespeare the adjective is ‘sometimes by a kind of hypallage attributed to another noun in the sentence’: see quots. 1598 and a1616.

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a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 271 Prodigall spending, but reuth of pure folkis neding.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 361 Some by fyre, some by prodigall expences.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 64 How I would make him..spend his prodigall wittes in booteles rimes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 162 How many prodigall bits haue Slaues and Pezants This night englutted.

1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity ii. iv. 78 Our little suppers they traduce as prodigal.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 343 This woman's Appartment, now twice or thrice, puld downe, & rebuilt, to satisfie her prodigal & expensive pleasures.

1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. xiii. 500 How many upstarts crept from low Condition, vast possessions show? Whose estate's audit so immense Exceeds all prodigal expence.

1792 T. Paine Rights of Man: Pt. Second v. 122 The profligate and prodigal times of Charles the Second.

1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. i. 17 There was, however, a singular and wild display of prodigal and ill judged ornaments, blended with his motley attire.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 327 Under the energetic and prodigal administration of the first William Pitt, the debt rapidly swelled to a hundred and forty millions.

1980 Time 21 Apr. 42 Successive U.S. administrations since the mid-1960s have mismanaged the economy by wildly spending..and then recklessly printing money to pay for the prodigal policies.

1982 J. Mark Aquarius ii. 31 Catskin shook his head at this prodigal suggestion.

a. That has, gives, or yields something on a lavish scale; generous, copious, abundant.

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the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adjective]

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1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. xxv. sig. C Too prodigall was nature thus to doe, To spend in one age, what should serue for two.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iv. 12 My Noble Gossips, y'haue beene too Prodigall; I thanke ye heartily.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Bbb6 Inriched with prodigall veines of Gold and Silver.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. viii. 249 That prodigal erudition which delights in inexhaustible quotations from writers whom we now deem obscure.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. i. 5 A more prodigal accumulation of quotations.

1859 C. Kingsley Tennyson in Misc. I. 228 The prodigal fulness of thought and imagery.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Jan. 3/3 The prodigal fund of ever fresh and readaptive humour.

1993 Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 31/1 Deep in this prodigal land of endless greening we have encountered a consciousness phenomenal in its swift ascent from animal origins, uncanny in the delineations of its perspective.

b. Having or providing a lavish amount of a resource or quality; generously or abundantly supplied with. Also: extravagant or unrestrained in the provision of something, the performance of an action, etc.

ΚΠ

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 9 Be now as prodigall of all Deare grace, As Nature was in making Graces deare.

1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 25 Of these things I shall be very prodigal in my discourse.

1706 Duke of Marlborough Let. 5 Aug. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) III. 633 I am taking what care I can to persuaide 328 (Elector of Bavaria) to come into our intirest, but I find 20 (France) has since the battaile been very prodigale in their promises.

1745 in New Jersey Archives XII. 275 Run away..a Servant Man,..appears a weildy young Man, prodigal in his Walk, and much so in his Speech.

1786 H. More Florio 24 When blushing Spring leads on the hours, And May is prodigal of flow'rs.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 141 Realms of upland, prodigal in oil, And hoary to the wind.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. ii. 157 Nature had been prodigal to him of her rarest gifts.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 557/2 Napoleon was prodigal of promises, but niggard of their fulfilment.

1979 Gourmet Dec. 18/3 The dessert specialty is apple brown Betty... Crunchy with brown sugar and prodigal with whipped cream that melts into the hot apples, it is pure bliss.

1992 C. Shields Republic of Love (1993) v. 51 She's bought herself a new summer robe, widely yoked and prodigal with poppies.

5. English regional and Welsh English (Pembrokeshire). Proud.

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1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms in W. W. Skeat Original Glossaries (1876) III. 41 Prodigal, proud.

c1750 W. Cuming MS Coll. Dorset Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 626/2 Prodigall.

1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 536 Prodigal, Proud. Ex. ‘A prodigal chap’.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Prodigal, Proud. Heref.

1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. at Prodigal Ah! he's a proper prodigal old chap, he is.

1901 F. E. Taylor Folk-speech South Lancashire (at cited word) He's gerrin' very prodigal o' lat'.

B. n.

a. A person who spends money extravagantly and wastefully; a spendthrift. Now rare.

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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal

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1547 J. Wilkinson tr. Aristotle Ethiques sig. Ci^v The prodigall is lesse in receuing, then he is in geuing, and the couetous contrarie, but the man that is liberal kepeth the meane betwene these two extremities.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. i. 41 A bankrout, a prodigall, who dare scarce shewe his head on the Ryalto.

1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) 104 The Philosopher that threw his money into the Sea to avoid avarice, was a notorious prodigall.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. iv. 435 The greater part of the money..would be lent to prodigals and projectors.

1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall II. i. 3 I suppose she thinks I am a prodigal..and concludes that I shall have but little worldly goods wherewith to endow my better half?

1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. vi. 143 Formerly, I was rich and a prodigal.

1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xli. 318 She..sent the prodigal a little money out of her dress allowance.

1993 Toronto Star 22 Mar. d6 I'm in hideous amounts of debt. I'm overextended everywhere: banks, credit cards, everything. I am the original prodigal.

b. A person who is wasteful of money, a resource, possession, asset, etc. Also figurative. Now rare and poetic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal

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1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick (front matter) He was a prodigal of life and lim, And bade all welcome, came to fight with him.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 53 I should be sorry to have bin such a prodigall of my time... If ye provoke me..I will in three months be an expert councelist.

1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. v. 85 in Church-hist. Brit. No wonder for those..which were prodigals of their own persons.

1767 E. Lloyd Conversation 46 Else should the Muse, a Prodigal of Thought, Bestow her Verse upon a Thing of Nought.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 297 I have been a prodigal of my best affections; a foolish prodigal—a spendthrift.

1884 ‘M. Field’ Callirrhoë ii. v. 52 Youth is the prodigal of golden wealth; The middle term of life becomes a miser.

1894 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche (rev. ed.) xv. 9 The prodigal of an immortal day For ever spending, and yet never spent.

1908 M. J. Cawein Poems 482 O aged one, libertine in hope not deed! O prodigal of wives as well as wealth!

2. A person who has lived a reckless or extravagant life away from home, but subsequently made a repentant return. Also more generally: a reckless or wayward person; a returned wanderer. Cf. sense A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > one who repents > typical example of

prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508

prodigal1600

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vi. 14 How like a younger or a prodigall..how like the prodigall doth she returne.

1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor v. i. sig. L4 Where is he?..the picture of the prodigal, go to ile haue the calfe drest for you at my charges.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 8 I would, like a true repenting Prodigal, go home to my Father.

1751 Transl. & Paraphr. Church Scotl. xl. v The grieving prodigal bewail'd the follies he had done.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 255 Should not I be permitted, like him, to reclaim my poor prodigal by affection as well as severity?

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxviii. 265 My mother..would receive her prodigal, and kill the fatted veal for me.

1885 S. Cox Expos. III. 30 Though a prodigal, he was still a son.

1924 Amer. Mercury Apr. 406/2 The—the prodigal back home!

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. i. 191 ‘Well!’ she said brightly, ‘so the prodigal's returned.’

1993 Ottawa Citizen 17 July f3 The ear-to-ear grin of a prodigal who went back home.

†C. adv.

Prodigally, lavishly. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adverb]

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1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 116 Do not I know when the blood doth burne, How prodigall the tongue lends the heart vowes.

Phrases

to play the prodigal: to be recklessly wasteful or lavish; to act like a prodigal (sense B. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander or be prodigal [verb (intransitive)]

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to light (also burn) the candle at both ends1736

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1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B3^v Let vollies of the great Artillery From of our gallies banks play prodigall.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 171 To play the dingthrift, or prodigall.

1711 E. Settle City-Ramble iv. 53 I have not such an extraordinary Stock of Wits, to play the Prodigal and lose 'em at that Rate.

c1820 S. Rogers Fountain in Italy 7 The water..o'erflowed; Then dashed away, playing the prodigal, And soon was lost.

1873 Overland Monthly Dec. 577/1 A dreamy nature,..yet melancholy, and not so much of a Puritan that he could not play the prodigal.

1885 Times 8 Jan. 9/1 The heir to an estate who trains himself for ownership by playing the prodigal.

1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Oct. d13 New York loves its home town sinners and scoundrels; there's no better place to play the prodigal.

Derivatives

ˈprodigalish adj. colloquial rare (of a person) having prodigal tendencies.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective]

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1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ii. 42 He should like to cross a stick wi' the prodigalish young chap.

ˈprodigalism n. the fact or condition of being a prodigal; prodigal behaviour, reckless extravagance, waywardness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun]

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spendthriftiness1950

squanderbugging1966

1896 Chicago Advance 1 Oct. 429 Infatuation is the bad element in prodigalism.

1922 Bee (Danville, Va.) 1 Apr. 4/1 Youth in general seemed to have gone off on a tangent of wild prodigalism.

1931 Helena (Montana) Independent 12 Apr. 2/7 Pharisaism may be as great a sin as prodigalism.

2001 Africa News (Nexis) 19 Nov. The President's daily reckless monetary prodigalism is the archetypal text book case of gross fiscal insanity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prodigal
释义	prodigaladj.n.adv. Brit. /ˈprɒdᵻɡl/, U.S. /ˈprɑdəɡ(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s prodygal, 1500s prodygall, 1500s–1700s prodigall, 1500s– prodigal, 1700s proddigal, 1700s prodigale; Scottish pre-1700 portugall (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 prodigall, pre-1700 prothocall, pre-1700 prothogall, pre-1700 1700s– prodigal. Origin: Apparently either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Or (iii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French prodigal ; French prodigue , -al suffix¹; Latin prōdigus , -al suffix¹. Etymology: Apparently either < Middle French, French prodigal lavish, liberal, generous, recklessly extravagant (1412–13, but apparently rare before 16th cent.; French †prodigal ), or independently < Middle French prodigue or its etymon classical Latin prōdigus prodig adj. + -al suffix¹, after prodigality n. Compare post-classical Latin prodigalis lavish (c1540 in a British source; also prodigaliter , adverb (4th cent.)), Spanish prodigal (c1400; rare). Compare earlier prodigality n.With prodigal son (also daughter, child) at sense A. 2 compare Middle French, French enfant prodigue (1560), post-classical Latin filius prodigus (1523 or earlier in marginal note to Vulgate Luke 15). A. adj. 1. a. Extravagant; recklessly wasteful of one's property or means. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] largea1225 fool-largec1325 costlewa1387 outragea1400 riotousc1405 sumptuousa1425 superfluea1425 prodigatec1429 profuse?a1475 lavishc1475 prodigalc1485 prodiga1492 prodigaleousa1500 superfluous1531 wasteful1538 costly?1555 prodigal1570 overlavish1573 squandering1589 lavishing1598 spenseful1600 expenseful1605 spendthrift1607 spendful1611 dingthrifty1615 impendious1623 expensive1628 unthriftya1631 spendthrifty1642 flush1703 extravagant1711 profligate1718 dispendious1727 wastry1791 wasterful1821 wastrife1822 prodigalish1857 high-rolling1890 wastrel1896 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) i. 61 Ffor jt is lesse maistry tobe wrechit gredy and fast haldand, or tobe fule large and prodigal—na tobe wis liberale and large. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 88 Gif I be nobill, gentill and fre, A prodigall man I am so prysit. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 72 Yf the sone be prodygal & gyven to al vyce & foly. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 83 The nobilitie is very gallant, prodigall in expences, spending more then their reuenues in diet and apparell. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 95 The elder and thrifty brother [represents] the Jew; the younger and prodigall, the Gentile. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 428 It is hard, if not impossible, for a prodigal Person to be guilty of no other Vice, but Prodigality. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa (1792) I. 215 Who, think you, does most injustice, a prodigal man, or a saving man? 1801 C. B. Brown Jane Talbot 164 Here is carpet and coverlet and curtains that might satisfy a prince; You are quite prodigal; and for whose accommodation is all this? 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) vii Lothair was profuse, but he was not prodigal. 1914 Times 13 June 21/1 Some satisfaction may indeed be expressed by those economists who think that we have been too prodigal in the matter of coal exports. 1922 Times 23 Jan. 5/2 Two millions spread over two years is too much to get rid of the most extravagant and prodigal Government that this country ever saw. 1953 New Republic 9 Mar. 19/1 Masterfully economical as to words, Mr. Saroyan is..almost recklessly prodigal as to feeling. 1995 S. Schama Landscape & Memory ii. 102 For what little of the mixed hardwood stands had survived..at the end of the seventeenth century had been laid waste by greedy and prodigal princelings. b. Wasteful of a resource, possession, asset, etc. Cf. sense A. 4b. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] largea1225 fool-largec1325 costlewa1387 outragea1400 riotousc1405 sumptuousa1425 superfluea1425 prodigatec1429 profuse?a1475 lavishc1475 prodigalc1485 prodiga1492 prodigaleousa1500 superfluous1531 wasteful1538 costly?1555 prodigal1570 overlavish1573 squandering1589 lavishing1598 spenseful1600 expenseful1605 spendthrift1607 spendful1611 dingthrifty1615 impendious1623 expensive1628 unthriftya1631 spendthrifty1642 flush1703 extravagant1711 profligate1718 dispendious1727 wastry1791 wasterful1821 wastrife1822 prodigalish1857 high-rolling1890 wastrel1896 1570 R. Sempill Regentis Trag. (single sheet) Cut of that Papist Prothogall of partis. 1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. iii. sig. I.iij^v Samocratius was in youthe, so prodigall of his Loue. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 149 Too late they pleased to be prodigal, both of Wealth and Life. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 185 No men are so strict exacters of modesty in a servant as those that are most prodigal of their own. 1751 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 1262 And he that is prodigal of his Hours, is, in Effect, a Squanderer of Money. 1773 Observ. State Poor 134 Perhaps no nation on earth is so prodigal of life as the English. a1824 Ld. Byron Wks. (1898–1904) I. 406 Rough with his elders, with his equals rash, Civil to sharpers, prodigal of cash. 1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton i. 15 Nature is prodigal of human life. 1909 Times 25 Aug. 17/1 The heaviest car came in third, the remarkable feature being that it was a six-cylinder machine commonly supposed to be most prodigal of fuel. 1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 7 May 14 An over-earnest youth prodigal of his time spent in the, as yet, unrewarding cause of radicalism in Scotland. 2. Of a person: that has lived a reckless or extravagant life away from home, but subsequently made a repentant return. Also more generally and figurative: that has gone astray; errant, wayward; wandering. Frequently in prodigal son (also daughter, child), with allusion to Luke 15:11–32 (cf. sense B. 2). Also in extended use.See also prodigate adj., perhaps an error for prodigale. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal waster1352 spender1393 fool-large?c1425 neve1440 stroyc1440 strawer1460 scapethrifta1500 prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508 nephew1532 scatterer1535 stroy-good1540 prodigal1547 spend-all1553 dingthrift1566 stroy-all1573 scattergood1577 slip-thrift1579 waste-good1585 slide-thrifta1591 spendthrift1601 unthrifta1602 prodiga1605 spend-good1605 wastethrift1608 prodigal1609 lavisher1611 squanderer1611 decoctor1615 profuser1616 extravagant1745 dissipater1799 wastrel1887 squander-bug1943 the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] > characterized or marked by squandering wasteful1451 prodigal1508 sieve-like1605 profusive1638 akolastic1656 squandering1726 effuse1745 spendthrift1790 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > one who repents > typical example of prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508 prodigal1600 1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. &&.iiij^v The comyng agayne of this prodygal chylde whiche hath spent his substaunce. 1551 Bible (Matthew's) Luke xv. (heading) The parables of the loste shepe, of the groat that was loste, and of the prodigall sonne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 96 Then hee compast a Motion of the Prodigall sonne, and married a Tinkers wife. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 16 A Clock, on which was represented, in painting, the Parable of the Prodigal Child. 1757 N. Owen Jrnl. 16 Aug. in E. Martin Jrnl. of Slave-Dealer (1930) 77 I say that these things will not keep him from the charectar of a proddigal sun, who hae spent his time idely abroad. 1796 J. Austen Let. 18 Sept. (1995) 12 My Father will be so good as to fetch home his prodigal Daughter from Town. ?1815 S. T. Coleridge MS Note in Poet. Wks. (2001) I. ii. 906 To shape, to soothe, Man's second Birth, And reconduct to Heaven Heaven's prodigal Heir! 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxii. 218 The prodigal son was evidently nervous of visiting the parental abode. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xi. 143 The wicked wolf..was received and petted like a sort of vulpine prodigal son. 1933 Times 23 May 10/4 As the progenitor of all the visual arts architecture has of course handed on her qualities to her great family, of which painting has become the prodigal daughter. 1970 G. MacEwen in Tamarack Rev. 54 11 She pulled a prodigal hair from her eyebrow and tried to pinpoint what it was she wanted. 1995 Gazette (Montreal) 2 Dec. k7 This story of a cat who feels unappreciated at home and decides to travel the world and do some high living. Having squandered it all away, the prodigal puss comes home after a year and a half. 1998 Sunday Tel. 25 Jan. (Sport section) 6/8 Although the son has been prodigal, he knows his duty is to preserve the only tangible, non-political, form in which West Indianness exists. 3. Of a thing, event, action, etc.: wastefully lavish; characterized by or suggestive of reckless extravagance. N.E.D. states that in Shakespeare the adjective is ‘sometimes by a kind of hypallage attributed to another noun in the sentence’: see quots. 1598 and a1616. ΚΠ a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 271 Prodigall spending, but reuth of pure folkis neding. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 361 Some by fyre, some by prodigall expences. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 64 How I would make him..spend his prodigall wittes in booteles rimes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 162 How many prodigall bits haue Slaues and Pezants This night englutted. View more context for this quotation 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity ii. iv. 78 Our little suppers they traduce as prodigal. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 343 This woman's Appartment, now twice or thrice, puld downe, & rebuilt, to satisfie her prodigal & expensive pleasures. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. xiii. 500 How many upstarts crept from low Condition, vast possessions show? Whose estate's audit so immense Exceeds all prodigal expence. 1792 T. Paine Rights of Man: Pt. Second v. 122 The profligate and prodigal times of Charles the Second. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. i. 17 There was, however, a singular and wild display of prodigal and ill judged ornaments, blended with his motley attire. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 327 Under the energetic and prodigal administration of the first William Pitt, the debt rapidly swelled to a hundred and forty millions. 1980 Time 21 Apr. 42 Successive U.S. administrations since the mid-1960s have mismanaged the economy by wildly spending..and then recklessly printing money to pay for the prodigal policies. 1982 J. Mark Aquarius ii. 31 Catskin shook his head at this prodigal suggestion. 4. a. That has, gives, or yields something on a lavish scale; generous, copious, abundant. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adjective] custyeOE room-handeda1200 largea1225 free?c1225 plenteousc1350 bounteousc1374 liberalc1384 free-hearteda1398 ungnedea1400 royalc1405 opena1425 plentifula1475 profuse?a1475 ungrighta1475 lavishc1475 almifluent1477 prodigous1477 frank1484 bountiful1508 largifluent?a1525 munificent1565 magnificent1577 largeous1583 munifical1583 magnifical1586 free-handed1592 frolic1593 open-handed1593 magnific?1594 prodigal1595 goodwillya1598 communicativea1602 real1602 prodig1605 unniggard1605 generous1615 open-hearteda1617 large-handeda1628 unniggardly1628 fluent1633 profusive1638 numerous1655 largifical1656 insordid1660 unsparing1667 dispensive1677 expensive1678 wasteful1701 flush1703 unboundeda1704 genteel1741 munific1745 magnifique1751 ungrudginga1774 unstinting1845 brickish1860 flaithulach1876 princely1889 outgiving1896 sharing1922 two-handed1929 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. xxv. sig. C Too prodigall was nature thus to doe, To spend in one age, what should serue for two. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iv. 12 My Noble Gossips, y'haue beene too Prodigall; I thanke ye heartily. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Bbb6 Inriched with prodigall veines of Gold and Silver. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. viii. 249 That prodigal erudition which delights in inexhaustible quotations from writers whom we now deem obscure. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. i. 5 A more prodigal accumulation of quotations. 1859 C. Kingsley Tennyson in Misc. I. 228 The prodigal fulness of thought and imagery. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Jan. 3/3 The prodigal fund of ever fresh and readaptive humour. 1993 Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 31/1 Deep in this prodigal land of endless greening we have encountered a consciousness phenomenal in its swift ascent from animal origins, uncanny in the delineations of its perspective. b. Having or providing a lavish amount of a resource or quality; generously or abundantly supplied with. Also: extravagant or unrestrained in the provision of something, the performance of an action, etc. ΚΠ 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 9 Be now as prodigall of all Deare grace, As Nature was in making Graces deare. View more context for this quotation 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 25 Of these things I shall be very prodigal in my discourse. 1706 Duke of Marlborough Let. 5 Aug. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) III. 633 I am taking what care I can to persuaide 328 (Elector of Bavaria) to come into our intirest, but I find 20 (France) has since the battaile been very prodigale in their promises. 1745 in New Jersey Archives XII. 275 Run away..a Servant Man,..appears a weildy young Man, prodigal in his Walk, and much so in his Speech. 1786 H. More Florio 24 When blushing Spring leads on the hours, And May is prodigal of flow'rs. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 141 Realms of upland, prodigal in oil, And hoary to the wind. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. ii. 157 Nature had been prodigal to him of her rarest gifts. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 557/2 Napoleon was prodigal of promises, but niggard of their fulfilment. 1979 Gourmet Dec. 18/3 The dessert specialty is apple brown Betty... Crunchy with brown sugar and prodigal with whipped cream that melts into the hot apples, it is pure bliss. 1992 C. Shields Republic of Love (1993) v. 51 She's bought herself a new summer robe, widely yoked and prodigal with poppies. 5. English regional and Welsh English (Pembrokeshire). Proud. ΚΠ 1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms in W. W. Skeat Original Glossaries (1876) III. 41 Prodigal, proud. c1750 W. Cuming MS Coll. Dorset Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 626/2 Prodigall. 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 536 Prodigal, Proud. Ex. ‘A prodigal chap’. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Prodigal, Proud. Heref. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. at Prodigal Ah! he's a proper prodigal old chap, he is. 1901 F. E. Taylor Folk-speech South Lancashire (at cited word) He's gerrin' very prodigal o' lat'. B. n. 1. a. A person who spends money extravagantly and wastefully; a spendthrift. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal waster1352 spender1393 fool-large?c1425 neve1440 stroyc1440 strawer1460 scapethrifta1500 prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508 nephew1532 scatterer1535 stroy-good1540 prodigal1547 spend-all1553 dingthrift1566 stroy-all1573 scattergood1577 slip-thrift1579 waste-good1585 slide-thrifta1591 spendthrift1601 unthrifta1602 prodiga1605 spend-good1605 wastethrift1608 prodigal1609 lavisher1611 squanderer1611 decoctor1615 profuser1616 extravagant1745 dissipater1799 wastrel1887 squander-bug1943 1547 J. Wilkinson tr. Aristotle Ethiques sig. Ci^v The prodigall is lesse in receuing, then he is in geuing, and the couetous contrarie, but the man that is liberal kepeth the meane betwene these two extremities. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. i. 41 A bankrout, a prodigall, who dare scarce shewe his head on the Ryalto. 1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) 104 The Philosopher that threw his money into the Sea to avoid avarice, was a notorious prodigall. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. iv. 435 The greater part of the money..would be lent to prodigals and projectors. View more context for this quotation 1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall II. i. 3 I suppose she thinks I am a prodigal..and concludes that I shall have but little worldly goods wherewith to endow my better half? 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. vi. 143 Formerly, I was rich and a prodigal. 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xli. 318 She..sent the prodigal a little money out of her dress allowance. 1993 Toronto Star 22 Mar. d6 I'm in hideous amounts of debt. I'm overextended everywhere: banks, credit cards, everything. I am the original prodigal. b. A person who is wasteful of money, a resource, possession, asset, etc. Also figurative. Now rare and poetic. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal waster1352 spender1393 fool-large?c1425 neve1440 stroyc1440 strawer1460 scapethrifta1500 prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508 nephew1532 scatterer1535 stroy-good1540 prodigal1547 spend-all1553 dingthrift1566 stroy-all1573 scattergood1577 slip-thrift1579 waste-good1585 slide-thrifta1591 spendthrift1601 unthrifta1602 prodiga1605 spend-good1605 wastethrift1608 prodigal1609 lavisher1611 squanderer1611 decoctor1615 profuser1616 extravagant1745 dissipater1799 wastrel1887 squander-bug1943 1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick (front matter) He was a prodigal of life and lim, And bade all welcome, came to fight with him. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 53 I should be sorry to have bin such a prodigall of my time... If ye provoke me..I will in three months be an expert councelist. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. v. 85 in Church-hist. Brit. No wonder for those..which were prodigals of their own persons. 1767 E. Lloyd Conversation 46 Else should the Muse, a Prodigal of Thought, Bestow her Verse upon a Thing of Nought. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 297 I have been a prodigal of my best affections; a foolish prodigal—a spendthrift. 1884 ‘M. Field’ Callirrhoë ii. v. 52 Youth is the prodigal of golden wealth; The middle term of life becomes a miser. 1894 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche (rev. ed.) xv. 9 The prodigal of an immortal day For ever spending, and yet never spent. 1908 M. J. Cawein Poems 482 O aged one, libertine in hope not deed! O prodigal of wives as well as wealth! 2. A person who has lived a reckless or extravagant life away from home, but subsequently made a repentant return. Also more generally: a reckless or wayward person; a returned wanderer. Cf. sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > one who repents > typical example of prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508 prodigal1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vi. 14 How like a younger or a prodigall..how like the prodigall doth she returne. View more context for this quotation 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor v. i. sig. L4 Where is he?..the picture of the prodigal, go to ile haue the calfe drest for you at my charges. View more context for this quotation 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 8 I would, like a true repenting Prodigal, go home to my Father. 1751 Transl. & Paraphr. Church Scotl. xl. v The grieving prodigal bewail'd the follies he had done. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 255 Should not I be permitted, like him, to reclaim my poor prodigal by affection as well as severity? 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxviii. 265 My mother..would receive her prodigal, and kill the fatted veal for me. 1885 S. Cox Expos. III. 30 Though a prodigal, he was still a son. 1924 Amer. Mercury Apr. 406/2 The—the prodigal back home! 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. i. 191 ‘Well!’ she said brightly, ‘so the prodigal's returned.’ 1993 Ottawa Citizen 17 July f3 The ear-to-ear grin of a prodigal who went back home. †C. adv. Prodigally, lavishly. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adverb] roomlyOE freelyOE unsparelya1225 largelyc1225 largec1350 liberallyc1410 unsparinglya1500 beneficially1530 bounteously1531 plenteously1535 frankly1551 well1565 well-favouredly1570 bountifully1580 prodigally1590 amply1594 munificently1594 royally1601 prodigal1603 generously1623 ungrudginglya1631 lavishly1769 unstintingly1857 spaciously1864 open-handedly1924 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 116 Do not I know when the blood doth burne, How prodigall the tongue lends the heart vowes. Phrases to play the prodigal: to be recklessly wasteful or lavish; to act like a prodigal (sense B. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander or be prodigal [verb (intransitive)] waste1390 lasha1560 squander1593 to play the prodigal1602 outlash1611 wanton1646 to light (also burn) the candle at both ends1736 extravagate1871 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B3^v Let vollies of the great Artillery From of our gallies banks play prodigall. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 171 To play the dingthrift, or prodigall. 1711 E. Settle City-Ramble iv. 53 I have not such an extraordinary Stock of Wits, to play the Prodigal and lose 'em at that Rate. c1820 S. Rogers Fountain in Italy 7 The water..o'erflowed; Then dashed away, playing the prodigal, And soon was lost. 1873 Overland Monthly Dec. 577/1 A dreamy nature,..yet melancholy, and not so much of a Puritan that he could not play the prodigal. 1885 Times 8 Jan. 9/1 The heir to an estate who trains himself for ownership by playing the prodigal. 1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Oct. d13 New York loves its home town sinners and scoundrels; there's no better place to play the prodigal. Derivatives ˈprodigalish adj. colloquial rare (of a person) having prodigal tendencies. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] largea1225 fool-largec1325 costlewa1387 outragea1400 riotousc1405 sumptuousa1425 superfluea1425 prodigatec1429 profuse?a1475 lavishc1475 prodigalc1485 prodiga1492 prodigaleousa1500 superfluous1531 wasteful1538 costly?1555 prodigal1570 overlavish1573 squandering1589 lavishing1598 spenseful1600 expenseful1605 spendthrift1607 spendful1611 dingthrifty1615 impendious1623 expensive1628 unthriftya1631 spendthrifty1642 flush1703 extravagant1711 profligate1718 dispendious1727 wastry1791 wasterful1821 wastrife1822 prodigalish1857 high-rolling1890 wastrel1896 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ii. 42 He should like to cross a stick wi' the prodigalish young chap. ˈprodigalism n. the fact or condition of being a prodigal; prodigal behaviour, reckless extravagance, waywardness. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] overflowingnessOE wastinga1300 prodigality1340 misdispendingc1390 misspendingc1390 fool-largessec1405 wantonness1448 fool-largec1450 dilapidationc1460 lavish1483 consuminga1538 profusion1545 sumptuosity1550 wastefulness1551 lashing1556 lavishing1574 profuseness1584 lavishness1590 misspense1591 wastening1604 outlashing1611 duck and drake1614 largesse1614 lavishment1630 squandering1632 prodigence1634 dissipation1639 wastry1645 profusiveness1655 high living1656 nepotation1656 extravagancy1666 extravagance1727 profligacy1792 squander1806 profligateness1817 wastrife1818 spendthriftism1862 wasterfulness1884 high-rolling1890 prodigalism1896 spendthriftiness1950 squanderbugging1966 1896 Chicago Advance 1 Oct. 429 Infatuation is the bad element in prodigalism. 1922 Bee (Danville, Va.) 1 Apr. 4/1 Youth in general seemed to have gone off on a tangent of wild prodigalism. 1931 Helena (Montana) Independent 12 Apr. 2/7 Pharisaism may be as great a sin as prodigalism. 2001 Africa News (Nexis) 19 Nov. The President's daily reckless monetary prodigalism is the archetypal text book case of gross fiscal insanity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † prodigalv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prodigal adj. Etymology: < prodigal adj. Compare prodigalize v., prodige v. Obsolete. transitive. To give or spend wastefully or extravagantly; to squander; to lavish. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)] forspendc893 scatter1154 dispend1303 waste1340 misspendc1390 miswastec1400 consumec1425 waste1474 profund1527 lasha1535 prodige1538 lavish1542 to play away1562 riot1566 embezzle1578 dilapidate1590 squander1593 confound1598 to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600 prodigalize1611 profuse1611 squander1611 paddle1616 bezzle1617 to run out of ——1622 to piss away1628 prodigal1628 decoct1629 to bangle (away)1632 debauch1632 deboise1632 to fribble away1633 to fool out1635 to run outa1640 to fiddle away1667 slattera1681 dissipate1682 to play off1693 duck-and-drake1700 liquidate1702 sparkle away1703 waster1821 befool1861 to frivol away1866 to play (at) duck and drake with1872 to fling away1873 mislive1887 slather1904 mucker1928 profligate1938 peter1956 spaff2002 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xx. 67 Hee prodigals a Mine of Excellencie, that lauishes a terse Oration to an approued Auditory. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 4 ‘Nemo se sibi vindicat, sed Alius in Alium consumitur’ (saith..Seneca) No man Husbandeth himselfe, but vainly..Prodigalls Himselfe out on others. 1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina Ded. 3 The best eyed fancy, cannot observe any traite in your peerless faces, wherein nature hath not prodigalled her charmes. 1840 Times 22 Oct. 5/1 If all the attentions and feasting prodigaled on Marshal Soult were not already forgotten, but that unoffending English persons were wantonly affronted in public merely because they were English. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.n.adv.c1485v.1628
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prodigaladj.n.adv.

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† prodigalv.