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Prompt   /prɑmpt/   Listen
adjective
Prompt  adj.  (compar. prompter; superl. promptest)  
1.
Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; said of persons. "Very discerning and prompt in giving orders." "Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at's feet." "And you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies."
2.
Done or rendered quickly, readily, or immediately; given without delay or hesitation; said of conduct; as, prompt assistance. "When Washington heard the voice of his country in distress, his obedience was prompt."
3.
Easy; unobstructed. (Obs.) "The reception of the light into the body of the building was very prompt."
Synonyms: Ready; expeditious; quick; agile; alert; brisk; nimble. Prompt, Ready, Expeditious. One who is ready is prepared to act at the moment. One who is prompt acts at the moment. One who is expeditious carries through an undertaking with constant promptness.


verb
Prompt  v. t.  (past & past part. prompted; pres. part. prompting)  
1.
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite. "God first... prompted on the infirmities of the infant world by temporal prosperity."
2.
To suggest; to dictate. "And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams."
3.
To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.


noun
Prompt  n.  (Com.) A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note. "To cover any probable difference of price which might arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for this article (tea) is three months."





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"Prompt" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Peters. 'There stands a man inured to physical danger. A few hours ago he was placed where prompt resolution was demanded to decide the fate of one of the loveliest creatures upon whom the light of yonder crater-fire ever shone—perhaps upon whom the sun ever shone; he had scarcely sixty seconds of time in which to determine whether she should ...
— A Strange Discovery • Charles Romyn Dake
... said, "I took it from a Mr. Cort, who had a little mill at Fontley in Hampshire: I have thus acquainted you with my method, by which I am now making more than ten thousand tons of bar-iron per annum." Samuel Homfray was equally prompt in adopting the new process. He not only obtained from Cort plans of the puddling-furnaces and patterns of the rolls, but borrowed Cort's workmen to instruct his own in the necessary operations; and he soon found the method so superior to that invented by Onions that ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles
... father's creed, but his mother's character, precepts, and example. "She was a person," he says, "of excellent practical sense, of a quick and sensitive moral judgment, and had no patience with any form of deceit or duplicity. Her prompt condemnation of injustice, even in those instances in which it is tolerated by the world, made a strong impression upon me in early life; and if, in the discussion of public questions, I have in my riper age endeavored ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... disgraceful in the highest degree to themselves. This conduct should receive not only the discountenance, but the decided reprehension of the respectable part of the community. Every citizen is interested, and is moreover bound to manifest his interest by his acts, in bringing every offender to prompt and condign punishment. The stake which every one has in the good order of the community, is great—it behoves, then, every one to exert himself ...
— The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday - Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts • Henry M. Brooks
... sagely once for all, for the surveyor's mind was of the type prompt in reaching conclusions, and he was difficult to divert from ...
— The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)


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