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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Prompt  \Prompt\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Prompted};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {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.  --Jer.  Taylor. 
 
  2.  To  suggest;  to  dictate. 
 
  And  whispering  angles  prompt  her  golden  dreams. 
  --Pope. 
 
  3.  To  remind,  as  an  actor  or  an  orator,  of  words  or  topics 
  forgotten. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  prompting 
  n  :  the  act  of  suggesting;  "it  was  a  suggestion  we  couldn't 
  refuse"  [syn:  {suggestion}] 




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