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PROS'PECT, n. L. prospectus, prospicio, to look forward pro and specio, to see.

1. View of things within the reach of the eye.

Eden and all the coast in prospect lay.

2. View of things to come intellectual sight expectation. The good man enjoys the prospect of future felicity.

3. That which is presented to the eye the place and the objects seen. There is a noble prospect from the dome of the state house in Boston, a prospect diversified with land and water, and every thing that can please the eye.

4. Object of view.

Man to himself

Is a large prospect.

5. View delineated or painted picturesque representation of a landscape.

6. Place which affords an extended view.

7. Position of the front of a building as a prospect towards the south or north. Ezekiel 40

8. Expectation, or ground of expectation. There is a prospect of a good harvest. A man has a prospect of preferment or he has little prospect of success.

9. A looking forward a regard to something future.

Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, who lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to or provision for the remaining part of life? Little used.