procinct

English

Etymology

From Latin procinctus, from procingere, procinctum (“to gird up”).

Noun

procinct (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A state of complete readiness for action.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Warr he perceiv'd, Warr in procinct, and found
     Already known what he for news had thought
     To have reported

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “procinct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)