Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to prose
Participle: prosed
Gerund: prosing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | prose |
| you | prose |
| he;she;it | proses |
| we | prose |
| you | prose |
| they | prose |
Perfect
| I | have prosed |
| you | have prosed |
| he;she;it | has prosed |
| we | have prosed |
| you | have prosed |
| they | have prosed |
Past
| I | prosed |
| you | prosed |
| he;she;it | prosed |
| we | prosed |
| you | prosed |
| they | prosed |
Pluperfect
| I | had prosed |
| you | had prosed |
| he;she;it | had prosed |
| we | had prosed |
| you | had prosed |
| they | had prosed |
Future
| I | will prose |
| you | will prose |
| he;she;it | will prose |
| we | will prose |
| you | will prose |
| they | will prose |
Future Perfect
| I | will have prosed |
| you | will have prosed |
| he;she;it | will have prosed |
| we | will have prosed |
| you | will have prosed |
| they | will have prosed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | prose |
| you | prose |
| he;she;it | prose |
| we | prose |
| you | prose |
| they | prose |
Perfect
| I | have prosed |
| you | have prosed |
| he;she;it | have prosed |
| we | have prosed |
| you | have prosed |
| they | have prosed |
Imperfect
| I | prosed |
| you | prosed |
| he;she;it | prosed |
| we | prosed |
| you | prosed |
| they | prosed |
Pluperfect
| I | had prosed |
| you | had prosed |
| he;she;it | had prosed |
| we | had prosed |
| you | had prosed |
| they | had prosed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would prose |
| you | would prose |
| he;she;it | would prose |
| we | would prose |
| you | would prose |
| they | would prose |
Perfect
| I | would have prosed |
| you | would have prosed |
| he;she;it | would have prosed |
| we | would have prosed |
| you | would have prosed |
| they | would have prosed |
Imperative
| you | prose |
| we | Let's prose |
| you | prose |
Verbs conjugated like 'prose'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'prose'
pose,
prise,
probe,
proke,
prove,
rose,
alose,
appose,
arise,
arouse,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1330, from O.Fr. prose (13c.), from L. prosa oratio "straightforward or direct speech" (without the ornaments of verse), from prosa, fem. of prosus, earlier prorsus "straightforward, direct," from Old L. provorsus "(moving) straight ahead," from pro- "forward" + vorsus "turned," pp. of vertere "to turn" (see verse).
2. From Middle English prose, from Old French prose, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātiō (“a straightforward speech – i.e. without the ornaments of verse”).
3. further etymology and related terms
4. The term prōsa (“straightforward”), a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”), the feminine form prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“to turn”). Compare verse.
Sample Sentences
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Pray, do not prose, good Ethelbert, but speak;
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What is your purpose? [1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act I, scene II, verses 189-190:]
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Already he felt himself near to being a celebrity. He had astonished Eton. That was a good beginning. Papa might prose, knowing, of course, nothing of the poetry of caricature, of the wild joys and the laurels that crown the whimsical. So while Mr. Lane hunted adjectives, and ran sad-sounding and damnatory substantives to earth, Eustace hugged himself, and secretly chuckled over his pilgrim's progress towards the pages of Vanity Fair. [1896, Robert Smythe Hichens, The Folly of Eustace:]