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                    "description": "(adverb) : prōfĭcĭo, fēci, fectum, 3\n* V. n and a. [pro-facio], to go forward, advance, gain ground, make progress.\n* Lit. (very rare): cum quinqueremis sola non proficeret,Plin. 32, 1, 1, § 4.\n* Trop., to go on, advance, make progress; to profit, derive advantage; to perform, effect, accomplish, obtain, etc. (class.; cf. procedo).\n* Of persons: si nihil in oppugnatione oppidi profecisset,Caes. B. G. 7, 20: ubi diligentiā nostrorum nihil his rebus profici posse intellexerunt,id. ib. 3, 21: plus multitudine telorum,id. ib. 7, 82: loci opportunitate,id. B. C. 3, 23: antesignani tantum profecere, ut pellerent omnes,id. ib. 3, 75: multum profecit,Nep. Eum. 10, 1: si modo in philosophiā aliquid profecimus, have made any progress, Cic.   Off. 3, 8, 37: ea,id. de Or. 2, 21 fin.—Of the sick, to get better: si quidquam profecerint, Cael. Aur Acut. 2, 10, 71 proficiens aegrotus,id. ib. 2, 11, 81\n* Of manim subjects, to grow, increase (mostly post-Aug.): id (vitis genus) quod umore proficit,Col. 3, 20: proficiente pretio,rising,Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 57.—In pass.: sed etiam ad summam profectum aliquid puto,Cic. Att. 7, 13, 1: postquam nihil proficiebatur,Plin. 6, 26, 30, § 122.—In a bad sense: proficere in pejus,to become worse and worse,Vulg. 2 Tim. 3, 13.\n* In partic., to be useful, serviceable, advantageous, etc., to effect, accomplish; to help, tend, contribute, conduce (class.; cf. prosum) ea suo quaeque loco, ubi plurimum proficere et valere possent, collocabat,Cic. Brut. 37, 139: nulla res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio,id. ib. 24, 92; Liv 3, 61: profectura aliquid tum tua verba puta, Ov P. 3, 1, 138: aut nihil in melius tot rerum proficit usus?Juv. 13, 18.—Of remedies: radice vel herbā Proficiente nihil,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 150; nec alia res celerius proficit, is of service, Plin 27, 11, 72, § 96: axungia proficit ad strumas,id. 28, 9, 37, § 140; pirorum ligni cinis contra fungos efficacius proficit,id. 23, 7, 62, § 116: radix anethi vel in febribus proficit,id. 20, 23, 98, § 260.—Impers.: multum proficiet illud demonstrare, quemadmodum scripsisset,Cic. Inv. 2, 41, 120.—Hence, prōfĭcĭenter, , successfully (eccl. Lat.), Aug Ep. 80: incedere, Hil. Trin. 1, 22; Cassiod in Psa. 133, 2."
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