Promotion. This word signifies, in military matters, the elevation of an individual to some appointment of greater rank and trust to the one he holds.
Promulgation. The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the sentence of a court-martial.
Proof. A term applied to the testing of powder, and also of ordnance, which are always fired with a regulated charge of powder and shot, to test their strength and soundness.
Proof. Conclusive evidence.
Proof. Capable of withstanding; as, bomb-proof, shot-proof.
Propel. To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move or cause to move; balls are propelled by the force of gunpowder.
Proper. A term which serves to mark out a thing more especially and formally. Thus, the proper form of a battalion is the usual continuity of line given to the formation of a battalion, and which remains unaltered by the wheelings of its divisions; or if altered, is restored by the same operation. Proper right, is the right of a battalion, company, or subdivision, when it is drawn up according to its natural formation. Proper pivot flank, in column, is that which, when wheeled up to, preserves the division of the line in the natural order, and to their proper front. The other may be called the reverse flank.
Proper. In heraldry, a charge borne of its natural color, is said to be proper. An object whose color varies at different times and in different examples, as a rose which may be white or red cannot be borne proper.
Prosecute. To carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute the war. Also, to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for punishment before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially.
Prosecutor. In courts-martial the judge-advocate is usually the prosecutor; but if an officer prefers a charge, he sometimes appears to sustain the prosecution. No person can appear as prosecutor not subject to the articles of war, except the judge-advocate.—Hough.