proximo

American  

[prok-suh-moh] / ˈprɒk səˌmoʊ /

adverb

1. in, of, or during the next month.

   on the 10th proximo.

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proximo British  

/ ˈprɒksɪməʊ /

adverb

1.  prox.  Compare: instant.   ultimo.  in or during the next or coming month

   a letter of the seventh proximo

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Etymology

Origin of proximo

1695–1700; < Latin proximō ablative of proximus next. See proximal

Example Sentences

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proximo

"Your testimony is after all to be received; and you may go, if you will, in my company to the trial, which is to be held at Inverary, Thursday, 21st proximo."

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Moncktons leave us this evening, and Amelie intends to set out for the hills on the 6th proximo.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William

That would only delay me, but then on the 15th proximo the Educational Association of Virginia will meet here, and I should not be able to return in time.

From Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Lee, Robert Edward, General

We desire to carry our first shipment of emigrants not later than September or October proximo.

From The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy by Flipper, Henry Ossian

Maddock is in Ceylon, but intends to return by the steamer which is to leave Calcutta on the 5th proximo.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William