Word Finder - prompted

definition

To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.

example

I prompted him to get a new job.

definition

To show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.

example

If he forgets his words I will prompt him.

definition

To initiate; to cause or lead to.

Dusty prompted at her silence.

An uncomfortable silence prompted Gerald to speak again.

The motive for this change does not appear, and we are equally ignorant of the cause which prompted his transference of the priesthood from his nominee to another son of Annas in 37.

The ding-dong prompted the pair to look across the bed to shame the other into a bathrobe to answer the door.

There is evidence that the request was prompted by the king, and his consent was given as a matter of course.

In 1730 he entered the Mazarin College under the Jansenists, who soon perceived his exceptional talent, and, prompted perhaps by a commentary on the Epistle to the Romans which he produced in the first year of his philosophical course, sought to direct it to theology.

This campaign has prompted action by a range of sportswear manufacturers to clean up their act.

The dream prompted Pliny to begin forthwith a history of all the wars between the Romans and the Germans.

The insertion of the Decalogue, or rather the point of view which prompted its insertion, naturally involved certain consequential changes of the existing text.

A judgment which is not prompted by motives and inspired by interest, which has not for its aim the satisfaction of a cognitive purpose, is psychologically impossible, and it is, therefore, mistaken to construct a logic which abstracts from all these facts.

The emperor's rough and severe habits and his rigid administration prompted Antiochene lampoons, to which he replied in the curious satiric apologia, still extant, which he called Misopogon.

All looked peaceful until Lord Auckland, prompted by his evil genius, attempted by force to place Shah Shuja upon the throne of Kabul, an attempt which ended in gross mismanagement and the annihilation of the British garrison in that city.

The jealousy of the latter two was prompted by the fact that the governorship and military commands had become not only much more important, but also much more lucrative, while power and money again procured many adherents.

This prompted us to explore the use of subcutaneous methotrexate.

Thereafter you will be prompted for the mol object number and the mol object number and the mol-item name.

Hold All - the player is prompted to hold all the reels, a win is then nudges in.

This has been prompted by periodic complaints made by the general public over the growing number of products of unknown source in the market.

An update from Franklin Graham The 2005 hurricanes prompted the greatest outpouring of disaster relief volunteers Samaritan's Purse has ever seen.

Photographs of prisoners subjected to sexual humiliation and other brutality at the hands of U.S. soldiers have prompted international outrage.

Public and congressional outcry prompted NASA to solicit alternatives to a space shuttle mission for servicing Hubble.

This prompted reflection on the effect of culture on the perceived legitimacy and efficacy of alternative and diverse forms of feedback.

The latest scaling down of Ms Cassani's responsibilities prompted the immediate resignation of Jane Willacy, the project manager.

Summer smog season commences The short hot weather spell toward the end of June prompted the first official summer smog warning.

The biannual fashion fest has prompted the usual soul-searching about Britain's place in haute couture.

The surprise CPI figure has prompted industry speculation that the next Bank of England base rate move may be down instead of up.

Discussions about whether we can meet the targets of the National Strategy prompted me to write the attached discussion paper.

The latest disorder has prompted Dublin Castle landlord Henry Conlon to call for extra measures to deal with the worst troublemakers.

The Levels were drained in recent centuries, starting in the 1620s, prompted by disastrous tsunami in 1607.

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Restart QuickBooks - when you are prompted to install the update, click ' Yes ' .

In fact, seeing the veal chop in the brightly lit exhibition fridge prompted me to choose it for my main course.

The user is prompted for every selected vertex, which label it should have.

The remarkable thing about England's performance on Saturday was the attacking verve shown; prompted by Rooney.

It is often prompted by neglect, often wilful, which has brought a building to a critical state.

The numerous adjustments required by the tapper and the inertia of the apparatus prompted inventors to seek for a self-restoring coherer which should not need tapping.

The account which has come down to us is that Mantegna began engraving in Rome, prompted by the engravings produced by Baccio Baldini of Florence after Sandro Botticelli; nor is there anything positive to invalidate this account, except the consideration that it would consign all the numerous and elaborate engravings made by Mantegna to the last sixteen or seventeen years of his life, which seems a scanty space for them, and besides the earlier engravings indicate an earlier period of his artistic style.

It may have been a consciousness of this fact which prompted a remark, made by the Speaker, that Mill's presence in parliament elevated the tone of debate.

An indispensable preliminary was the virtual elimination of oxygen-absorption in the earth's atmosphere, and his bold project of establishing an observatory on the top of Mont Blanc was prompted by a perception of the advantages to be gained by reducing the thickness of air through which observations have to be made.

Such a question is not only legitimate, but prompted by the analogy of at least one other great class of Arthropods.

But his arguments against the first are really only valid against the limited and unworthy conceptions of divine agency involved in the ancient religions; his denial of the second is prompted by his vital realization of all that is meant by the arbitrary infliction of eternal torment after death.

It is, however, in class 3 that the legislatures show most activity, much of it pernicious, because prompted by persons seeking to serve private interests which are often opposed to the interests of the whole community.

This collection of distichs, written in collaboration with Schiller, was prompted by the indifference and animosity of contemporary criticism, and its disregard for what the two poets regarded as the higher interests of German poetry.

Voltaire, who was prompted by his natural benevolence to comment on the latter (the profits went to a relation of the poet), was not altogether fitted by nature to appreciate Corneille, and moreover, as has been ingeniously pointed out, was not a little wearied by the length of his task.

The latest scaling down of Ms Cassani 's responsibilities prompted the immediate resignation of Jane Willacy, the project manager.

The move to create primary care groups prompted 25 mainly single-handed GPs in Walsall to propose that they should form one PCG.

The biannual fashion fest has prompted the usual soul-searching about Britain 's place in haute couture.

These findings have prompted the ABI to call for a more streamlined claims procedure for ' genuine claimants ' with less legal argument involved.

Choose a theme Next you are prompted for which theme you wish to use.

This prompted conservationists to translocate 60 chicks to Rutland Water, in the East Midlands.

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