I.advance, progress, effect, increase, growth, profit, success (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “sine profectu, Ov M. 9, 50: verbaque profectu dissimulata carent,” id. P. 3, 9, 40; Col. 1, 4, 5; Varr. R. R. 1, 223; Quint. 10, 3, 2; 12, 6, 4; 1, 2, 26: “in quo quantum esset ingenii, quantum etiam profectus, sermo primus ostendit,” progress, Sen. Ep. 11, 1: “experimentum profectus tui capere animi firmitate,” id. ib. 20, 1: “donec blandlente profectu prodire in scenam concupiit,” Suet. Ner. 20: “puer magni profectus in eā arte obiit,” Plin. 35, 4, 7, § 21.—So, the improvement, convalescence of the sick, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 9, 54.—In plur.: “in similitudine et temporum et profectuum,” Vell. 1, 16, 2.
prōfectus (with the first syllable short, Aus. ldyll. 4, 70), ūs, m. proficio,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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