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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PROMPTUARY

n.[L. promptuarium.] That form which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository.

 

PROMPTURE

n.Suggestion; incitement.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PROMPTUARY

PROMPTUARY Promp "tu *a *ry, a.

 

Defn: Of or pertaining to preparation. [R.] Bacon.

 

PROMPTUARY

Promp "tu *a *ry, n. Etym: [L. promptuarium, fr. promptuarius belonging to distribution, distributing: cf, F. promptuaire. See Prompt, a.]

 

Defn: That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository. Woodward.

 

PROMPTURE

Promp "ture, n. Etym: [See Prompt, a.]

 

Defn: Suggestion; incitement; prompting. [R.] Shak. Coleridge.

 

Spanish Dictionary

promptu

promptu formal Palabra que se utiliza en la expresión latina in promptu que significa ‘de repente ’, ‘de manera inesperada, brusca y no deliberada ’.