Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a dull or prosaic manner.
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- adverb In a
prosaic manner;straightforwardly .
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- adverb in a matter-of-fact manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the title prosaically suggests, you're headed back to Ostagar, the game-opening scene of King Cailan's grisly defeat, Loghain's betrayal and the fall of the Grey Wardens.
Eurogamer 2010
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As the title prosaically suggests, you're headed back to Ostagar, the game-opening scene of King Cailan's grisly defeat, Loghain's betrayal and the fall of the Grey Wardens.
Eurogamer 2010
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Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of Franklin.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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It comprised the Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of Franklin.
The Crossing 1904
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It is conceded that Coleridge is infinitely wise, but composes poems to exemplify "prosaically" a laughable theory.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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More prosaically, Lyme disease is on the rise, with about 550 cases reported in 2008, the last year for which statistics were available, up from 215 in 2000.
Strangest New York Visitors: Leprosy And The Bubonic Plague Simon McCormack 2011
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More prosaically, Lyme disease is on the rise, with about 550 cases reported in 2008, the last year for which statistics were available, up from 215 in 2000.
Strangest New York Visitors: Leprosy And The Bubonic Plague Simon McCormack 2011
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More prosaically, Lyme disease is on the rise, with about 550 cases reported in 2008, the last year for which statistics were available, up from 215 in 2000.
Strangest New York Visitors: Leprosy And The Bubonic Plague Simon McCormack 2011
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More prosaically, Lyme disease is on the rise, with about 550 cases reported in 2008, the last year for which statistics were available, up from 215 in 2000.
Strangest New York Visitors: Leprosy And The Bubonic Plague Simon McCormack 2011
Louises commented on the word prosaically
You think horror enter spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
February 29, 2012