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Proscription in ancient Rome
Proscription (proscriptio): Roman death-list procedure of the Late Republic, instituted by Sulla in 82–81 BCE (about 520 victims) and revived by Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus in 43–42 BCE, condemning enemies without trial with bounties and confiscation.
Proscriptions of the Second Triumvirate
Proscriptions of the Second Triumvirate: state-sponsored killings of 43–42 BCE by Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus under the lex Titia; death lists posted in the forum, about 300 senators and 2,000 knights condemned, Cicero the most famous victim.
Prose
Prose is ordinary language without deliberate metrical structure, in contrast with verse; from the Latin prosa, "straightforward discourse", it is the default form for novels, reports, and everyday writing.
Prose Edda
The Prose Edda (Snorra Edda, Younger Edda) is Snorri Sturluson's c. 1220 Icelandic handbook on skaldic poetry, in four parts (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, Háttatal), the richest source on Norse mythology, distinct from the anonymous Poetic Edda.
Prose Lancelot
The Prose Lancelot, also Lancelot en prose, is the early 13th-century Old French prose romance telling Lancelot's life, his love for Guenevere, and his rise as Arthur's greatest knight.
Prose poem
A prose poem, called mensur şiir in Turkish, is a short prose text without meter or rhyme that carries the imagery and lyricism of poetry.
Prose poetry
Prose poetry is poetry written as prose, in sentences and paragraphs without verse line breaks, that reads as poetry through compression, rhythm, and imagery; it arose in nineteenth-century France with Baudelaire.
Prose satire
Prose satire is satire composed in prose rather than verse, depicting an evil condition in an individual or society that should be corrected or punished; Jonathan Swift was its dominant English figure.
Prosecco
Prosecco, also Glera-based Italian sparkling wine, is made by tank (Charmat) fermentation in Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia; Prosecco DOC topped 667 million bottles in 2025, with Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG as its historic heart.
Prosecution history estoppel
Prosecution history estoppel is a judge-made rule of United States patent law preventing a patent owner from recapturing, through the doctrine of equivalents, subject matter surrendered during patent prosecution.
Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York
New York criminal case (People v. Trump) charging Donald Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over 2016 hush-money payments; first felony conviction of a former US president, May 2024, unconditional discharge January 2025, on appeal.
Prosecution of James Comey
Federal prosecution of former FBI director James Comey, indicted September 25, 2025 in the Eastern District of Virginia for false statements and obstruction over 2020 congressional testimony; dismissed November 24, 2025 after Judge Currie ruled prosecutor Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed, with the Fourth Circuit appeal pending.
Prosecution of Letitia James
Prosecution of Letitia James: October 2025 federal mortgage-fraud indictment (bank fraud, false statements) of New York's attorney general, brought by Lindsey Halligan after a Pulte referral; dismissed November 24, 2025 as unlawfully appointed; re-indictments failed.
Prosecution of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores
US federal prosecution of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores in SDNY (S2 11 Cr. 205) on narcoterrorism, cocaine importation, weapons, and 2026 torture-conspiracy charges after their January 2026 capture in Caracas; trial set June 14, 2027.
Prosecution of S. Iswaran
Prosecution of S. Iswaran: Singapore case in which former Transport Minister S Iswaran was charged in 2024 with corruption and gift-receiving offences, pleaded guilty to five charges, and was sentenced to 12 months' jail.
Prosecutor
A prosecutor is a lawyer who initiates prosecution of criminal offenses and presents the case for prosecution, often titled district attorney in the United States.
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is the elected head of the Office of the Prosecutor, serving a non-renewable nine-year term under the Rome Statute.
Proselytism
Proselytism, also called proselytization or proselytising, is expressive conduct intended to change another person's religious beliefs or affiliation, a term that has acquired a pejorative sense for coercive methods.
Prosenjit Chatterjee (প্রসেনজিৎ চট্টোপাধ্যায়)
Prosenjit Chatterjee (প্রসেনজিৎ চট্টোপাধ্যায়), Bumba Da, Bengali actor-producer, son of Biswajit Chatterjee; over 345 lead roles, National Award for Dosar, Padma Shri, Kakababu franchise, OTT debut Jubilee.
Prosenjit Chatterjee filmography
The Prosenjit Chatterjee filmography covers five decades of the Indian actor and producer, from his 1968 debut to over 270 Bengali films and recent Hindi streaming series like Jubilee.
Proserpina
Proserpina, the Latin form of Persephone (Περσεφόνη), is the Roman queen of the underworld: daughter of Jupiter and Ceres, wife of Pluto, abducted while gathering flowers, bound by pomegranate seeds to return yearly, worshipped at Rome chiefly in the ludi saeculares.
Proshai, Livushka
Proshai, Livushka is The Sopranos season 3, episode 2 (March 4, 2001), written by David Chase, directed by Tim Van Patten, in which Livia Soprano dies after actress Nancy Marchand's real death, with a CGI final scene.
Prosigns for Morse code
Prosigns for Morse code are one or two letters sent fused into a single character, carrying operating instructions like wait, end of message, and end of contact.
Prosit
Prosit is a deep neural network for mass-spectrometry-based proteomics that predicts peptide fragment ion intensities and retention times, trained on 550,000 synthetic peptides and published in 2019.
Prositz
Prositz, a village near Lommatzsch in Saxony's Ketzerbachtal, is an archaeological site known for the Tanzberg early Roman Imperial period cemetery: 110 burials excavated 1906–1909 by Deichmüller, published by Coblenz in 1955.
Proskuriv pogrom
The Proskuriv pogrom was a mass killing of over a thousand Jews in Proskuriv (today Khmelnytskyi), Ukraine, by Ukrainian People's Republic soldiers on February 15, 1919.
Proso millet
Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum), also called common or broomcorn millet, is an ancient Chinese-domesticated warm-season cereal grown for birdseed, livestock feed, and gluten-free human food, with leading U.S. production in Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
Prosocial behavior
Prosocial behavior is voluntary action that benefits others, including helping, sharing, donating, cooperating, and volunteering; distinct from altruism (costly, selfless) and helping (situational support), and studied across cultures, development, and demographics.
Prosody (linguistics)
Prosody in linguistics, also called suprasegmentals, covers pitch, duration, amplitude, and voice quality patterns carrying stress, tone, intonation, and information structure; studied chiefly via autosegmental-metrical theory and ToBI transcription.
Prosopagnosia
Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is difficulty recognizing facial identity despite normal vision. It occurs as acquired (stroke, head injury, Alzheimer's) or developmental forms affecting about 2% of people, often hereditary, with no treatment but compensatory strategies.