The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . A mother, (oti/riirc. Procris (prokris), n. [NL. (Falu-icius, ),< L. Irocris, < Gr. II/)(k/«f, a daughter of Erech-tlieus.] In eiitom.: (a) A genus of zyganidmoths, having the fore wings blue, the hindbrown, antenna? sublinear, in tlu nuile bipec-tinate, palpi slender, wings maculate, and larvieovate, contracted, delicately jiilose. it is wide-spread, of 20 or :.o species, represeiitetl in Kurope, , and both Americas. P. ainericana
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . A mother, (oti/riirc. Procris (prokris), n. [NL. (Falu-icius, ),< L. Irocris, < Gr. II/)(k/«f, a daughter of Erech-tlieus.] In eiitom.: (a) A genus of zyganidmoths, having the fore wings blue, the hindbrown, antenna? sublinear, in tlu nuile bipec-tinate, palpi slender, wings maculate, and larvieovate, contracted, delicately jiilose. it is wide-spread, of 20 or :.o species, represeiitetl in Kurope, , and both Americas. P. ainericana is very de-. proctoptoma 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling Procrustes,a robber of ancient Cireece, who, according tothe tradition, tortured his %-ictims by placingthem on a certain bed, and stretching tuem orlopjiing off their legs to adapt the body to itslength; resemblingtliismodeof torture. Hence— 2. Reducing by violence to strict conform-ity to a measure or model; producing uniform-ity by deforming or injurious force or by mu-tilation. When a story or argument undergoes contortion or mu-tilation, it is said to go through aprucrustean process-Sir J. Davies. He stretches his favorite characters on a Proerxinteanbed, wliile be subordinates his plot and Ids episodes tocontlictiiig calculations. FortniyhUy llev., N. S., XL. SO. procrusteanize (pro-kruste-an-iz), V. t.; ])p. procrusleaHi:etl, ppr. procriisteaiiizing.[< Irocrusleaii + -i:e.} lo stretch or contractto a given or required extent or size. Frocrustesian (pro-kms-tesi-an), a. [Irreg. <Jrocni.^ls (see Ilocriisteaii) + -ia
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