Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used as a toast to someone's health while drinking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Good luck to you: a salutation used in drinking healths and otherwise among Germans and Scandinavians, especially among university students.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection Lit., may it do (you) good; -- a salutation used in well wishing, esp. among Germans, as in drinking healths; -- also used in the contracted form
prost .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sed nihil erucae faciunt bulbique salaces; Improba nec prosit jam satureia tibi.
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Kittinger is one of the unsung pioneers of the space age; prosit!
Happy Kittinger Day! 2006
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Kittinger is one of the unsung pioneers of the space age; prosit!
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"Didn't any fellow shake you by the hand even, and say: _Prosit! prosit!! prosit!!! _"
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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Istum [libellum] tibi et fratri, ut prosit, quod collegi festinans,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Yes, prosit, thou art not likely to get it before December!
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Juhani Aho 1891
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Et sicut oportet cibum in nosmetipsos edendo recipere, ut operetur in nobis, suamque in nobis efficaciam exserat, cum extra nos positus nihil nobis prosit: ita necesse est, nos fide
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Quid prosit ista tua longa peregrinatio, etc. Travelling, you know, is a vanity.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846
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Hoc nempe ab homine exigiture, ut prosit hominibus; si fieri potest, multis; si minus, paucis; si minus, proximis, si minus, sibi: nam cum se utilem caeteris efficit, commune agit negotium.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Nihil potest ad malos pervenire quod prosit, imo nihil quod non noceat -- No event can occur to the wicked which will do them good, rather no event which will not do them harm.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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