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PRO-tuh-plast
noun
a prototype; the first made of something
1781Lives of the PoetsFootnote 172: Newspapers appear to have had an earlier date than here assigned. Cleiveland, in his Character of a London Diurnal, says, 'the original sinner of this kind was Dutch; Gallo-belgicus the Protoplast, and the Modern Mercuries but Hans en kelders.' Some intelligence given by Mercurius Gallo-belgicus is mentioned in Carew's Survey of Cornwall, p. 126, originally published in 1602. These vehicles of information are often mentioned in the plays of James and Charles the first. R. See Idler, Nº. 7, and note; and Idler, Nº. 40, and note. Ed.1886An Introduction to the Study of Browning's PoetryThose forms, unalterable first as last, proved him her copier, not the protoplast of nature: what could come of being free by action to exhibit tree for tree, bird, beast, for beast and bird, or prove earth bore one veritable man or woman more?2001Da Vinci RisingAnd nature, the protoplast of all man's creation, had not invented rotary motion.Labels: Hiram Corson, Jack Dann, Samuel Johnson
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