prolificadj.

Brit.

/prəˈlɪfɪk/, U.S.

/prəˈlɪfɪk/,

/proʊˈlɪfɪk/

Forms: 1600s prolifique, 1600s–1700s prolifick, 1600s– prolific.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prolifique; Latin prolificus.

Etymology: < French prolifique capable of producing offspring (1503), fertile (1520, of semen) and its etymon post-classical Latin prolificus producing or capable of producing offspring, fertile (from 14th cent. in British sources; from 15th cent. in continental sources) < classical Latin prōlēs proles n. + -ficus -fic suffix. Compare Spanish prolífico (1541 as prolifico ), Italian prolifico (1437–8). Compare earlier prolifical adj.

1. Tending to cause or promote abundant production; fertilizing. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] > making or made productive

fructifyingc1374

prolific1635

impregnant1643

fecund1686

fructescent1862

1635 T. May Victorious Reigne Edward III iv. sig. I Nor does the Sunne..Send out that wholesome and prolifique fire He us'd to doe.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. viii. 103 The Sun having such a prolific and powerful influence on al sublunaries.

1680 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Hist. Florence i. 1 in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. (new ed.) The people which live North-ward beyond the Rhine and the Danube, being born in a healthful and prolifick Clime, do many times increase.

1729 J. Swift Modest Proposal 7 Fish being a prolifick Dyet, there are more Children born in Roman Catholick Countries about nine Months after Lent.

1737 R. Glover Leonidas ii. 253 By Nile's prolifick torrents delug'd o'er.

1777 Farmer's Mag. Oct. 335 The steeping of seeds in prolific liquors is not of modern invention.

1858 R. W. Emerson Persian Poetry in Wks. (1906) III. 238 The prolific sun, and the sudden and rank plenty which his heat engenders.

1875 Appleton's Jrnl. July 98 A thousand productions of a most prolific climate.

1920 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 40 331 No doubt a few stories retold in other countries originated in the prolific climate of Babylonia.

†2.

a. Fertile, not barren; capable of generating or producing offspring; generative, reproductive. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective]

bearingOE

genderinga1398

multiplyinga1400

fecundc1420

broodya1522

fruitful1526

breeding1552

procreant1588

procreative1598

increasing1600

broodious1602

prolifical1608

conceptiousa1616

plenteousa1616

conceptive1630

feracious1637

propagatory1647

prolific1650

proliferous1654

propagative1654

progenial1664

teemful1755

progenitive1769

breedy1824

proligerous1836

progenital1837

philoprogenitive1857

eugenesic1864

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 233 The better portion of the Prolifique Seed flowes down from the Brain and spinal Marrow.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 5 The breed of such Mixtures [of dogs] being prolifick.

1741 tr. Marquis d'Argens Chinese Lett. ix. 54 By Misfortune, the prolific Virtue was quite extinct in him.

1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 8 The domestic cat begins..to reproduce by the end of the first year of her life, and she is prolific to her ninth.

1896 H. Gervis in T. C. Allbutt & W. S. Playfair Syst. Gynæcol. 232 The statistics given by writers of the proportion of sterile to prolific marriages vary much.

b. Botany. Capable of producing fertile seed. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1800 E. Darwin Phytologia xv. 375 The barren buds may be distinguished from the prolific ones by their form before they expand.

1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (ed. 2) II. 100 Pastinaca. Parsnep... Fl. all regular, uniform, perfect, and generally prolific.

a. Of an animal, person, plant, etc.: producing, or able to produce, many offspring, fruits, etc.; highly productive; fruitful. Of soil, land, etc.: fertile. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective]

bearinglOE

fruitfula1300

plenteousc1325

fructuousa1382

birthful?c1475

fertile1481

broodya1522

yielding1556

foisonous1570

procreant1588

generative1597

yieldy1598

childing1600

seedful1605

thankful1610

foisonable1613

prolifical1615

fecundous1630

feracious1637

prolific1653

fetiferous1654

floriferous1656

productive1672

fœtant1678

spawning1682

uberousa1706

populous?1789

productible1830

grateful1832

resultful1833

genetic1838

tumid1840

polyphorous1858

generant1875

proliferent1920

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [adjective] > bearing fruit or fruitful

fruitfula1300

birthel-treea1325

fructified14..

fructive14..

fructuosec1440

fructifiable1623

fructiferous1632

frugiferous1633

frugiferent1656

pregnant1669

prolific1738

fruiting1778

fruited1786

fruitening1845

fructificative1887

1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year I. xxiii. 302 Covetousnesse being..so originall a crime, such a prolifick sin.

1685 J. Dryden tr. Lucretius Nature of Love iv, in Sylvæ 95 Many, seeming barren Wives have been, Who, after match'd with more prolifique men, Have fill'd a Family with pratling boyes.

1699 D. Defoe Let. Member Parl. 14 Sometimes Persecution it self is the most prolifick Soil for the True Religion to shoot forth and flourish in.

1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant iv. 370 It is well known that the Fruit of this prolific Plant doth always precede the Leaves.

1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 7 To attack a nation thus prolific.

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 84 The wolf is a very prolific animal.

1832 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm viii We should have no idea how prolific the soil might be made.

1839 J. C. Calhoun Speech 16 Jan. in Papers (1981) XIV. 524 The public lands, that prolific source of corruption in the hands of the profligate.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 129 Some he made to have few young ones, while those who were their prey were very prolific.

1923 Glasgow Herald 25 Jan. 4/2 Mr. Wells is a prolific idea-monger.

1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xvii. 202 By nature prolific, she had presented me with several half-brothers and sisters.

1990 Garden News 21 Nov. 12/3 Pat..runs a large vegetable garden and a cluttered greenhouse containing a prolific grape vine.

2005 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 25 Aug. 17 The family—consisting of his prolific father's 42 children and several widows—would seek up to $6.5 million from Cowboy Films.

b. With in, of. Having or producing an abundance of something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > abundantly produced or producing

fecundc1400

facund?1504

bountifula1538

redundant?1611

fertilea1616

fruitful1629

prolific1665

productive1672

spawning1682

tousy1895

1665 T. Tanner Euphuia 100 Gratitude in a generous heart is sweet, and most prolifique of good humours.

1693 S. Pepys in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 213 This age being not very prolifique of customers for such a commodity.

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. x. 161 Till Invention shall be exhausted, and no longer prolific of new Wants and additional Wishes in Man.

1795 G. Wakefield Reply 2nd Pt. Age of Reason 25 Whether ancient times were prolific in such stupid beings as these.

1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 208 The heather and the clover were prolific of the honey-dew.

1869 E. Dunkin Midnight Sky 32 This constellation is very prolific in stars of the fourth and fifth magnitudes.

1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry viii. 104 Bam tsu wu..; most tedious in construction, most capable of ornamentation, and most prolific in aesthetic effects.

1923 O. T. Howe Argonauts of '49 i. 10 Company after company was formed, not only in New England and other eastern sections but also in foreign countries. France was very prolific of them.

1995 S. Schama Landscape & Memory ii. 103 A great realm of the forest prolific in treasures for lord and churl alike.

c. Of a creative artist, esp. a writer: producing many works.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [adjective] > prolific

prolific1753

1753 London Monthly Mercury June 100 Let us but look into the several Comedies of this prolific Author, and we shall find in the greatest Part of them nothing more than the bare Relation of some popular Anecdote reduced to Dialogue.

1832 Biblical Repertory Apr. 216 That extravagant..species of romance..which, in the hands of their [sc. the western Asiatics'] prolific writers, has grown up like an enchanted palace.

1887 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. & Hist. Fine Arts 3 107 Here at Naukratis are several specimens after the style of this prolific artist [sc. Nikosthenes].

1931 H. Read Meaning of Art ii. 121 Delacroix was one of the most prolific of painters.

1980 ‘M. Fonteyn’ Magic of Dance 271 The most successful, and undoubtedly most prolific, house composer was an Italian, Cesare Pugni, with three hundred and twelve ballets to his credit.

1994 M.E.A.T. Sept. 29/1 This prolific band..grind out the goods musically with a very healthy dose of speed.

4. Characterized by fruitfulness or abundant production.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] > characterized by abundant production

prolific1749

1749 A. Selden Love & Folly i. 36 The humble Plants, the tow'ring Woods..clothe The Globe with their prolific Growth.

1762 London Mag. June 329/2 Where thy smiles propitious shine, The whole prolific year is thine.

1784 J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23. i. 6 The most prolific year in that period was 1775, which produced 22 children.

1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) xiii. 58 The country..was..adapted for the vigorous support and prolific increase of animal life.

1886 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. vii. 150 The extant remains of the literary work of the period are so great, that, if we suppose them to bear the ordinary proportion to the lost works of the same age, they would prove it to be enormously prolific.

1908 J. A. Thomson Heredity iii. 92 It is possible that the prolific multiplication in a new environment may have had something to do with the awakening of the impulsive mutability [in Œnothera lamarckiana].

1969 Sunday Statesman (Calcutta) 27 July (Mag. section) p. i/5 The most prolific period of Hindu art, from the Gupta age to the mediaeval times, saw the rapid development of sculptural ornamentation.

2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. iii. 7/5 We are entering perhaps the most prolific period in history in drug discovery because of biotechnology and the human genome.

5. That is abundant; numerous, profuse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective]

goodeOE

broadOE

fullOE

large?c1225

rifec1225

fulsomea1325

abundanta1382

plenteousa1382

copiousc1384

plentifula1400

ranka1400

aboundc1425

affluentc1425

aboundable?1440

seedy1440

manyfulc1450

ample1472

olda1500

richa1500

flowing1526

fertilent1535

wallingc1540

copy1546

abounding1560

fat1563

numbrous1566

good, great store1569

round1592

redundant1594

fruitful1604

cornucopian1609

much1609

plenty?a1610

pukka1619

redundant1621

uberant1622

swelling1628

uberous1633

numerousa1635

superfluent1648

full tide1649

lucky1649

redounding1667

numerose1692

bumper1836

prolific1890

proliferous1915

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 7/3 To propitiate these ghosts an animal must be slaughtered—whether it be the prolific pariah dog or the valuable mythun.

1934 Times 14 Aug. 39/1 There is..a prolific supply of ballad singers..but a pronounced shortage of tenors and sopranos capable of singing romantic music and speaking dialogue in an operetta production.

1973 P. Arnold & C. Davis Hamlyn Bk. World Soccer 27/1 There was some prolific scoring after the change in the off-side law in 1925.

1997 Oxoniensia 61 251 These mounts appear in the early 13th century and are prolific in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.

2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 178 To cure a cold homeopathically, choose arsenicum album if you have a watery, burning discharge..and prolific sneezing.

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

单词	prolific
释义	prolificadj. Brit. /prəˈlɪfɪk/, U.S. /prəˈlɪfɪk/, /proʊˈlɪfɪk/ Forms: 1600s prolifique, 1600s–1700s prolifick, 1600s– prolific. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prolifique; Latin prolificus. Etymology: < French prolifique capable of producing offspring (1503), fertile (1520, of semen) and its etymon post-classical Latin prolificus producing or capable of producing offspring, fertile (from 14th cent. in British sources; from 15th cent. in continental sources) < classical Latin prōlēs proles n. + -ficus -fic suffix. Compare Spanish prolífico (1541 as prolifico ), Italian prolifico (1437–8). Compare earlier prolifical adj. 1. Tending to cause or promote abundant production; fertilizing. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] > making or made productive fructifyingc1374 prolific1635 impregnant1643 fecund1686 fructescent1862 1635 T. May Victorious Reigne Edward III iv. sig. I Nor does the Sunne..Send out that wholesome and prolifique fire He us'd to doe. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. viii. 103 The Sun having such a prolific and powerful influence on al sublunaries. 1680 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Hist. Florence i. 1 in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. (new ed.) The people which live North-ward beyond the Rhine and the Danube, being born in a healthful and prolifick Clime, do many times increase. 1729 J. Swift Modest Proposal 7 Fish being a prolifick Dyet, there are more Children born in Roman Catholick Countries about nine Months after Lent. 1737 R. Glover Leonidas ii. 253 By Nile's prolifick torrents delug'd o'er. 1777 Farmer's Mag. Oct. 335 The steeping of seeds in prolific liquors is not of modern invention. 1858 R. W. Emerson Persian Poetry in Wks. (1906) III. 238 The prolific sun, and the sudden and rank plenty which his heat engenders. 1875 Appleton's Jrnl. July 98 A thousand productions of a most prolific climate. 1920 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 40 331 No doubt a few stories retold in other countries originated in the prolific climate of Babylonia. †2. a. Fertile, not barren; capable of generating or producing offspring; generative, reproductive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] bearingOE genderinga1398 multiplyinga1400 fecundc1420 broodya1522 fruitful1526 breeding1552 procreant1588 procreative1598 increasing1600 broodious1602 prolifical1608 conceptiousa1616 plenteousa1616 conceptive1630 feracious1637 propagatory1647 prolific1650 proliferous1654 propagative1654 progenial1664 teemful1755 progenitive1769 breedy1824 proligerous1836 progenital1837 philoprogenitive1857 eugenesic1864 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 233 The better portion of the Prolifique Seed flowes down from the Brain and spinal Marrow. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 5 The breed of such Mixtures [of dogs] being prolifick. 1741 tr. Marquis d'Argens Chinese Lett. ix. 54 By Misfortune, the prolific Virtue was quite extinct in him. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 8 The domestic cat begins..to reproduce by the end of the first year of her life, and she is prolific to her ninth. 1896 H. Gervis in T. C. Allbutt & W. S. Playfair Syst. Gynæcol. 232 The statistics given by writers of the proportion of sterile to prolific marriages vary much. b. Botany. Capable of producing fertile seed. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1800 E. Darwin Phytologia xv. 375 The barren buds may be distinguished from the prolific ones by their form before they expand. 1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (ed. 2) II. 100 Pastinaca. Parsnep... Fl. all regular, uniform, perfect, and generally prolific. 3. a. Of an animal, person, plant, etc.: producing, or able to produce, many offspring, fruits, etc.; highly productive; fruitful. Of soil, land, etc.: fertile. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] bearinglOE fruitfula1300 plenteousc1325 fructuousa1382 birthful?c1475 fertile1481 broodya1522 yielding1556 foisonous1570 procreant1588 generative1597 yieldy1598 childing1600 seedful1605 thankful1610 foisonable1613 prolifical1615 fecundous1630 feracious1637 prolific1653 fetiferous1654 floriferous1656 productive1672 fœtant1678 spawning1682 uberousa1706 populous?1789 productible1830 grateful1832 resultful1833 genetic1838 tumid1840 polyphorous1858 generant1875 proliferent1920 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [adjective] > bearing fruit or fruitful fruitfula1300 birthel-treea1325 fructified14.. fructive14.. fructuosec1440 fructifiable1623 fructiferous1632 frugiferous1633 frugiferent1656 pregnant1669 prolific1738 fruiting1778 fruited1786 fruitening1845 fructificative1887 1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year I. xxiii. 302 Covetousnesse being..so originall a crime, such a prolifick sin. 1685 J. Dryden tr. Lucretius Nature of Love iv, in Sylvæ 95 Many, seeming barren Wives have been, Who, after match'd with more prolifique men, Have fill'd a Family with pratling boyes. 1699 D. Defoe Let. Member Parl. 14 Sometimes Persecution it self is the most prolifick Soil for the True Religion to shoot forth and flourish in. 1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant iv. 370 It is well known that the Fruit of this prolific Plant doth always precede the Leaves. 1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 7 To attack a nation thus prolific. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 84 The wolf is a very prolific animal. 1832 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm viii We should have no idea how prolific the soil might be made. 1839 J. C. Calhoun Speech 16 Jan. in Papers (1981) XIV. 524 The public lands, that prolific source of corruption in the hands of the profligate. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 129 Some he made to have few young ones, while those who were their prey were very prolific. 1923 Glasgow Herald 25 Jan. 4/2 Mr. Wells is a prolific idea-monger. 1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xvii. 202 By nature prolific, she had presented me with several half-brothers and sisters. 1990 Garden News 21 Nov. 12/3 Pat..runs a large vegetable garden and a cluttered greenhouse containing a prolific grape vine. 2005 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 25 Aug. 17 The family—consisting of his prolific father's 42 children and several widows—would seek up to $6.5 million from Cowboy Films. b. With in, of. Having or producing an abundance of something. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > abundantly produced or producing fecundc1400 facund?1504 bountifula1538 redundant?1611 fertilea1616 fruitful1629 prolific1665 productive1672 spawning1682 tousy1895 1665 T. Tanner Euphuia 100 Gratitude in a generous heart is sweet, and most prolifique of good humours. 1693 S. Pepys in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 213 This age being not very prolifique of customers for such a commodity. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. x. 161 Till Invention shall be exhausted, and no longer prolific of new Wants and additional Wishes in Man. 1795 G. Wakefield Reply 2nd Pt. Age of Reason 25 Whether ancient times were prolific in such stupid beings as these. 1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 208 The heather and the clover were prolific of the honey-dew. 1869 E. Dunkin Midnight Sky 32 This constellation is very prolific in stars of the fourth and fifth magnitudes. 1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry viii. 104 Bam tsu wu..; most tedious in construction, most capable of ornamentation, and most prolific in aesthetic effects. 1923 O. T. Howe Argonauts of '49 i. 10 Company after company was formed, not only in New England and other eastern sections but also in foreign countries. France was very prolific of them. 1995 S. Schama Landscape & Memory ii. 103 A great realm of the forest prolific in treasures for lord and churl alike. c. Of a creative artist, esp. a writer: producing many works. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [adjective] > prolific prolific1753 1753 London Monthly Mercury June 100 Let us but look into the several Comedies of this prolific Author, and we shall find in the greatest Part of them nothing more than the bare Relation of some popular Anecdote reduced to Dialogue. 1832 Biblical Repertory Apr. 216 That extravagant..species of romance..which, in the hands of their [sc. the western Asiatics'] prolific writers, has grown up like an enchanted palace. 1887 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. & Hist. Fine Arts 3 107 Here at Naukratis are several specimens after the style of this prolific artist [sc. Nikosthenes]. 1931 H. Read Meaning of Art ii. 121 Delacroix was one of the most prolific of painters. 1980 ‘M. Fonteyn’ Magic of Dance 271 The most successful, and undoubtedly most prolific, house composer was an Italian, Cesare Pugni, with three hundred and twelve ballets to his credit. 1994 M.E.A.T. Sept. 29/1 This prolific band..grind out the goods musically with a very healthy dose of speed. 4. Characterized by fruitfulness or abundant production. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] > characterized by abundant production prolific1749 1749 A. Selden Love & Folly i. 36 The humble Plants, the tow'ring Woods..clothe The Globe with their prolific Growth. 1762 London Mag. June 329/2 Where thy smiles propitious shine, The whole prolific year is thine. 1784 J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23. i. 6 The most prolific year in that period was 1775, which produced 22 children. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) xiii. 58 The country..was..adapted for the vigorous support and prolific increase of animal life. 1886 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. vii. 150 The extant remains of the literary work of the period are so great, that, if we suppose them to bear the ordinary proportion to the lost works of the same age, they would prove it to be enormously prolific. 1908 J. A. Thomson Heredity iii. 92 It is possible that the prolific multiplication in a new environment may have had something to do with the awakening of the impulsive mutability [in Œnothera lamarckiana]. 1969 Sunday Statesman (Calcutta) 27 July (Mag. section) p. i/5 The most prolific period of Hindu art, from the Gupta age to the mediaeval times, saw the rapid development of sculptural ornamentation. 2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. iii. 7/5 We are entering perhaps the most prolific period in history in drug discovery because of biotechnology and the human genome. 5. That is abundant; numerous, profuse. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] goodeOE broadOE fullOE large?c1225 rifec1225 fulsomea1325 abundanta1382 plenteousa1382 copiousc1384 plentifula1400 ranka1400 aboundc1425 affluentc1425 aboundable?1440 seedy1440 manyfulc1450 ample1472 olda1500 richa1500 flowing1526 fertilent1535 wallingc1540 copy1546 abounding1560 fat1563 numbrous1566 good, great store1569 round1592 redundant1594 fruitful1604 cornucopian1609 much1609 plenty?a1610 pukka1619 redundant1621 uberant1622 swelling1628 uberous1633 numerousa1635 superfluent1648 full tide1649 lucky1649 redounding1667 numerose1692 bumper1836 prolific1890 proliferous1915 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 7/3 To propitiate these ghosts an animal must be slaughtered—whether it be the prolific pariah dog or the valuable mythun. 1934 Times 14 Aug. 39/1 There is..a prolific supply of ballad singers..but a pronounced shortage of tenors and sopranos capable of singing romantic music and speaking dialogue in an operetta production. 1973 P. Arnold & C. Davis Hamlyn Bk. World Soccer 27/1 There was some prolific scoring after the change in the off-side law in 1925. 1997 Oxoniensia 61 251 These mounts appear in the early 13th century and are prolific in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. 2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 178 To cure a cold homeopathically, choose arsenicum album if you have a watery, burning discharge..and prolific sneezing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1635
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