Defn: Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar. "Every citizen, if he were not a proletarian animal kept at the public cost." De Quincey. — n.
Defn: A proletary.
PROLETARIAT
Prol`e*ta"ri*at, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.
PROLETARIATE
Prol`e*ta"ri*ate, n.
Defn: The lower classes; beggars. "The Italian proletariate." J. A.
Symonds.
PROLETARY Prol"e*ta*ry, n.; pl. Proletaries. Etym: [ L. proletarius, fr. proles offspring. Cf. Prolétaire.] (Rom. Antiq.)
Defn: A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.
PROLICIDE
Prol"i*cide, n. Etym: [L. proles offspring + caedere to kill.]
Defn: The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth. Bouvier.