(n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing;
language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished
from verse, or metrical composition.
(n.) Hence, language which evinces little imagination or
animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
(n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the
Mass. See Sequence.
(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as,
prose composition.
(a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain;
dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
(v. t.) To write in prose.
(v. t.) To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
(v. i.) To write prose.
