prompture

English

Noun

prompture (countable and uncountable, plural promptures)

1. suggestion; incitement; prompting
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 2, scene 4:

     I'll to my brother: / Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood, / Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour. / That had he twenty heads to tender down / On twenty bloody blocks, he'd yield them up, / Before his sister should her body stoop / To such abhorr'd pollution.

   • 1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Recollections of Love:

     Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep,
     Has not Love's whisper evermore
     Been ceaseless, as thy gentle roar?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prompture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Participle

prōmptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of prōmptūrus