prose
noun
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
prosed
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past participleof prose.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof prose.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
prosenounthe ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
Example Sentences
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A similar bill prosed in the Senate would change visitation restrictions specifically for nursing homes, although the measure has not yet been placed on the Legislature’s agenda.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2021
Now that I have prosed on to you of different things, I will spare you any more prosing.—Farewell, and be happy, and think sometimes, when in a good humour, of your ever-loving brother, "Rodolph."
From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by John Knowles
And when he had versed his verse and had prosed his prose, he again groaned and complained and remembered he had been and how he had been parted from his brother.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
"And yet he doesn't look in the least an Englishman," she still rather guardedly prosed.
From A Passionate Pilgrim by Henry James
Well, I have prosed unconscionably, so adieu for the present.
From Letters from the Cape by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon
