n. (Politics) the lowest level of the proletariat, comprising unskilled workers, the unemployed, and the dispossessed, alienated from the class with with they would normally identify and having little or no class solidarity; -- an important element in Marxist theory. [ PJC ]
n. [ Pref. pro- for, in place of + leg. ] (Zool.) One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvæ of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also
n. [ L. prolegatus; pro for + legatus legate. ] (Rom. Hist.) The deputy or substitute for a legate. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory. [ 1913 Webster ]
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‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; to take beforehand; &unr_; before + &unr_; to take. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a proleptical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Med.) The art and science of predicting in medicine. Laycock. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ F. See Proletary. ] One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. proletaneus. ] Having a numerous offspring. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. proletarius. See Proletary. ] Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar. “Every citizen, if he were not a proletarian animal kept at the public cost.” De Quincey. --
n. [ F. ] The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The lower classes; beggars. “The Italian proletariate.” J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]
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