Crossword clues for prodigal
prodigal
- A recklessly extravagant consumer
- Gold pair ordered, being recklessly extravagant
- Extravagant lord with a pig? That's novel
- Wastefully extravagant
- Wasteful professional, like Vice President Gore
- Lavish in support of archaeological work most of all
- Prompt I miss, wasteful
- Urge single girl to be reckless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prodigal \Prod"i*gal\, n.
One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without
necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure;
a waster; a spendthrift. ``Noble prodigals of life.''
--Trench.
Prodigal \Prod"i*gal\, a. [L. prodigus, from prodigere to drive forth, to squander away; pro forward, forth + agere to drive; cf. F. prodigue. See Agent. ] Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses.
In fighting fields [patriots] were prodigal of blood.
--Dryden.
Syn: Profuse; lavish; extravagant; squandering; wasteful. See Profuse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., a back-formation from prodigality, or else from Middle French prodigal and directly from Late Latin prodigalis, from Latin prodigus "wasteful," from prodigere "drive away, waste," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + agere "to drive" (see act (v.)). First reference is to prodigial son, from Vulgate Latin filius prodigus (Luke xv:11-32). As a noun, "prodigal person," 1590s, from the adjective (the Latin adjective also was used as a noun).
Wiktionary
a. 1 wastefully extravagant. 2 (context often followed by of or with English) someone yielding profusely, lavish 3 profuse, lavishly abundant 4 returning after abandoning a person, group, or ideal, especially for selfish reasons; being a prodigal son. n. A prodigal person, a spendthrift.
WordNet
adj. very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" [syn: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]
recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn: extravagant, profligate, spendthrift]
marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal life"
n. a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: profligate, squanderer]
Wikipedia
Prodigal may refer to
- a spendthrift, or person who spends money recklessly and wastefully
- Parable of the Prodigal Son (Bible)
- The Prodigal, a 1955 epic biblical film
- The Prodigal (Angel), a Season 1 episode of the TV show Angel
- Prodigal (Smallville), a Season 2 episode of the TV show Smallville
- "Prodigal", the eighth track from Dreaming Out Loud, an album by American alternative rock bandOneRepublic
- "Prodigal", the seventh track from In Absentia, an album by British progressive rock Porcupine Tree
- Prodigal (band), a contemporary Christian music band of the 1980s led by Loyd Boldman
- Prodigal, a 2002 musical by Mathew Frank
- Proactive Discovery of Insider Threats Using Graph Analysis and Learning, a computerized behavior analysis system
Prodigal is the self-titled debut album by the Contemporary Christian/ Christian rock band Prodigal, released in 1982.
The album cover is notable for mimicking M. C. Escher's Relativity, but featuring imagery inspired by each of the song titles.
In 2014, Loyd Boldman and Rick Fields (founding members of Prodigal and sole owners of all rights to the sound recordings, videos, artwork, images, and music publishing of the complete Prodigal library) released a 3 CD boxed set of all 3 Prodigal albums remastered for digital on Fields' Silver Orb Media label. Shortly after the re-issue was announced, Loyd Boldman died after a long illness.
Prodigal was a progressive, influential Contemporary Christian music group from Cincinnati, Ohio which released three albums in the early to mid 1980s. Although classified primarily as a rock band, the group's sound ranged from radio-friendly pop to keyboard-driven new wave to pop country. The group members were keyboardist Loyd Boldman (deceased), drummer Dave Workman, guitarist Rick Fields and bassist Mike Wilson. Prodigal was noted for having three lead singers, as Boldman, Workman and Fields would trade off lead vocalist duties depending on the track. Boldman generally handled the rock-oriented tracks, while Workman and Fields split the more pop- and new wave-focused material.
Prodigal had success on Christian radio with the songs "Invisible Man" (from Prodigal), the No. 1 single "Scene of the Crime" and "Emerald City" (from Electric Eye) and "Jump Cut" from Just Like Real Life. The band also created a number of promotional music videos for Electric Eye and Just Like Real Life.
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music says, "Prodigal was in tune with the sounds and spirit of the early ‘80's...while writing songs that expanded the boundaries of the worship and evangelism fare that typified contemporary Christian music at the time." Prodigal’s self-titled debut album was named Album of the Year in 1982 by Group magazine (along with Amy Grant’s Age to Age and Petra’s More Power to Ya).
Electric Eye, the group’s second album, received Best of the Year honors in 1984 by both Contemporary Christian Music magazine (CCM) and Campus Life magazine. The album also received national attention for a unique promotional idea: a computer program for a Commodore 64 was mastered into a "stop-groove" at the end of the vinyl record, the first time this had ever been done. The program, if copied to a cassette tape could be loaded via cassette drive into a C-64 computer to reveal graphics, lyrics and a message from the band. The video for the song, "Boxes" (written by Workman and directed by Boldman), won the very first Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove Award for music videos ("Best Visual Song"). The music video for the song "Fast Forward" was named Video of the Year by the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers (now the Alliance for Community Media).
The Christian Music Archive said of the band's third album, Just Like Real Life, "This is an excellent album by one of the early new wave/rock hybrid bands of the early to mid-eighties, using equal parts keyboards and rock guitar. Sadly the band didn't get the recognition they so richly deserved, as this was a cut above most Christian albums of the time with instantly memorable songs and lyrics so intelligently written as to be in a class of their own. If they had been a secular band, they would have been early MTV stars. An essential album."
After Prodigal disbanded, Loyd Boldman released a solo album Sleep Without Dreams on the independent label Outbound Records in 1988. Boldman created three music videos for the album, including one for the title track which won Best Video from the Florida Motion Picture and Television Association (FMPTA). He later co-founded Devotion Media, a creative media firm in Winter Park, Florida. Boldman had been part of the worship team at Northland Church in Longwood, Florida, since 1989. Dave Workman is a regional leader for Vineyard USA and served as worship leader and later senior pastor at Vineyard Community Church (http://www.vineyardcincinnati.com/) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Workman spearheaded The Healing Center (http://healingcentercincinnati.org), a non-profit facility serving thousands of people each month in Cincinnati with over forty free services, as well as the H2O Nigeria Project, drilling over one hundred wells in Nigeria. He is the author of The Outward-Focused Life: Becoming a Servant in a Serve-Me World (http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/the-outward-focused-life/285070) and regularly speaks on developing outward-focused churches nationally and internationally. Rick Fields released an album of instrumentals in 1999 titled Finishing School with songwriter Jim Wilson as The Perkolaters. In 2009, The Perkolaters released a pop/rock single titled On Top Of The World. Both releases are available at iTunes. Fields has also performed with many other Cincinnati artists, including: Janet Pressley, Danny Frazier, David Wolfenberger, and Signs Of Life: The Essence Of Pink Floyd. Mike Wilson currently leads worship at Word of Life Church in Highland Heights, Kentucky.
A retrospective article about Prodigal appeared in 2009 in the online magazine Popdose (http://popdose.com)[]
In April 2014, it was announced that all 3 Prodigal albums had been remastered and were being re-issued as the 30th Anniversary Limited Edition 3 CD Set[] on Fields's Silver Orb Media label to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the release of Electric Eye. Hours after the public announcement of the re-issue, Loyd Boldman died after a prolonged illness. Prodigal's statement on Boldman's death and information about the 3 CD package can be found on the band's website at http://prodigalnow.com.
Usage examples of "prodigal".
Dodwell, the whole host of martyrs, which owe their existence to the prodigal invention of later days, had he but bestowed fair room, and dwelt with his ordinary energy on the sufferings of the genuine witnesses to the truth of Christianity, the Polycarps, or the martyrs of Vienne.
But the instincts of our common humanity indignantly remonstrate against the testing of clumsy or unimportant hypotheses by prodigal experimentation, or MAKING THE TORTURE OF ANIMALS AN EXHIBITION TO ENLARGE A MEDICAL SCHOOL, or for the entertainment of students--not one in fifty of whom can turn it to any profitable account.
There the wall glows neon-bright, prodigal images splashed along its surface, overlapping, overwriting each other.
Denville did not, after all, visit her prodigal son before breakfast, being strongly urged by Kit not to do so, on the grounds that she would in all probability wake him from a deep sleep, induced partly by exhaustion, and partly by a posset brewed by Nurse Pinner from some recipe known only to herself.
By thee, rid of their native rudeness, their minds and tongues being polished, the thorns of vice being torn up by the roots, those men attain high places of honour, and become fathers of their country, and companions of princes, who without thee would have melted their spears into pruning-hooks and ploughshares, or would perhaps be feeding swine with the prodigal.
Two more rounds went by, in which King was parsimonious of effort and Sandel prodigal.
Sophie and Fred bargained their prodigal down to one--just one--child of the unspeakable Shub-Niggurath, father of the woods and eternal spawner of obscene life forms in his root-roofed cavern beneath the rolling green hillsides around Arkham City.
This propensity for being generous and openhanded came from his having been a soldier in his youth, for soldiering is a school where the stingy man becomes liberal, and the liberal man becomes prodigal, and if there are any soldiers who are miserly, they are, like monsters, very rarely seen.
So rich, and prodigal, and glorious, in its gifts, is faithful and true-hearted love,--when it knows the sacrifices which it must make to merit them, and consents willingly to forego vanity, selfishness, and the exactions of self-will, in unlimited and unregretted exchange.
We laugh at their attempt to sustain loyalty, and speak of them as a steady father of a family is wont to speak of some unthrifty prodigal who is throwing away his estate and hurrying from one ruinous debauchery to another.
Of burnished metal, fretted and embossed With all the marvelous story of her birth Painted in prodigal splendor of rich tincts, And carved by heavenly artists,--crystal seas, And long-haired Nereids in their pearly shells, And all the wonder of her lucent limbs Sphered in a vermeil mist.
Below, the city was bustling: Sevillanos riding pillion on their raucous little scooters, dodging tapas-hungry tourists who, despite their computerized guides, still wandered lost in the maze of the Barrio Santa Cruz, marvelling at the prodigal orange trees casting fruit on the cobbles, sighing over the romance of it all, linking arms, and looking out for authentic flamenco.
One other genuine quality he has which crowns all these, and that is this: to a friend in want, he will not depart with the weight of a soldered groat, lest the world might censure him prodigal, or report him a gull: marry, to his cockatrice or punquetto, half a dozen taffata gowns or satin kirtles in a pair or two of months, why, they are nothing.
Van Liesvelt had defrosted several entrees, his usual prodigal generosity, and she had some of each as well, as though the food and the alcohol would help ground her.
Do not be so prodigal of your favours, and you cannot fail to meet with a man who will take care of your fortune.