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Webster 1913 Edition


Procacious

Pro-ca′cious

,
Adj.
[L.
procax
,
-acis
, fr.
procare
to ask, demand.]
Pert; petulant; forward; saucy.
[R.]
Barrow.

Webster 1828 Edition


Procacious

PROCA'CIOUS

,
Adj.
[L. procax; pro, forward.]petulant; saucy. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


procacious

procacious

English

Adjective

procacious (comparative more procacious, superlative most procacious)

  1. Bold, forward, insolent.
    • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
      Philosophy first became public when it proposed to teach character to this strapping lout with a procacious cock, the superfluous energy of a horse, and the restless attention of a child, []