prosaladj.
/ˈprəʊzl/, U.S. /ˈproʊz(ə)l/ Now rare.
Relating to prose; composed in prose; (also) prosaic.In quot. 1654: characterized by writing or printing in the form of continuous prose (rather than in lines or sections like verse).
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1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica vi. 137 These Analyses in a prosal method..are plainer..for the vulgar sort, than such as are set in Sections.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) xi. 177 The Priest not onely or always composed his prosal raptures into Verse.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Prosal, prosaic. (Not used.)]
1904 Perry (Iowa) Daily Chief 26 Jan. 4/3 Ye Poet—Would that my muse might soar aloft, and..find words to sing the glorious glory of your hair of burnished gold! Ye Maiden (red-haired and prosal)—That sounds very pretty Mr Scribbler.
1994 Sel#1 (Blacklist/Snow) in rec.arts.poems (Usenet newsgroup) 20 June You are trying to use too many words to say quite a simple thing, the equivalent in prosal writing is ‘purple prose’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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