prompture

prompture (countable and uncountable, plural promptures)

1. (obsolete) suggestion, incitement, or prompting
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 2, scene 4:

     I'll to my brother:
     Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,
     Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour.
     That had he twenty heads to tender down
     On twenty bloody blocks, he'd yield them up,
     Before his sister should her body stoop
     To such abhorr'd pollution.

   • 1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Recollections of Love:

     Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep,
     Has not Love's whisper evermore
     Been ceaseless, as thy gentle roar?

• “prompture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

prōmptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of prōmptūrus