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Prosper(o)us, -os, adj. Also: prosprus; prospoures, prosseperowse. [e.m.E. and late ME prosperous (1445), -us (c 1460), -eux (1472–3), F. prospereus (15th c. in Godef.). Cf. Prosper adj.]

1. Consistently successful; flourishing; thriving.(1) 1515 Douglas Corr. 318.
To be pute in souer kepping for theyr prosperos estayte
1549 Compl. 20/13.
Prosperus men prouidis nocht to resist the occasions of the mutabiliteis
a1568 A. Scott Bann. MS I p. 8/8.
Quhois workis on breid sall prosprus spreid
a1568 Bann. MS 77 a/43.
Thocht thow … be prosperus
a1578 Pitsc. I 48/16.
The pepill … said that sic ane marieage could never be prosperous
a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 89. 1607 Lett. & St. P. Jas. VI 107.
I pray the Lord to gif ȝour maiestie … ane prosseperowse ryng
1651 Acts VI ii 669/1.
To pray for … a prospoures warr and happie peas
(2) 1596 Dalr. I 6/11.
Nochtwithstandeng amang the mountanis and hiche cuntreyis, ates is mekle mair prosperous than quheit

2. Favourable, auspicious. 1513 Doug. iii vi 203 (Ruddim.) (see Prosper adj. a).
Prosperus
1560 Rolland Seven S. 768.
All seuin … Past to espy the sternis … , To tak iornay gif it was prosperous
1570 Leslie 153.
Sayled with pleasand windis and prosperous vayage
1579, 1617 Despauter (1579).
Dexter, richt or prosperous
1661 Stockholm New Year's Gift Title.
The authors most serious vvishes … of a prosperous neu year

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