Crossword clues for prudential
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prudential \Pru*den"tial\, n. That which relates to or demands the exercise of, discretion or prudence; -- usually in the pl.
Many stanzas, in poetic measures, contain rules
relating to common prudentials as well as to religion.
--I. Watts.
Prudential \Pru*den"tial\, a.
Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives. `` A prudential line of conduct.''
--Sir W. Scott.Exercising prudence; discretionary; advisory; superintending or executive; as, a prudential committee.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Medieval Latin prudentialis, from Latin prudentia "a foreseeing, foresight" (see prudence). Related: Prudentially. Prudential, the U.S. insurance company, dates to the 1870s; its logo featuring the Rock of Gibraltar dates from c.1900 and was widely known 20c.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Characterised by the use of prudence; arising from careful thought or deliberation. (from 15th c.) 2 Of a person: exercising prudence; cautious. (from 17th c.) 3 advisory; superintending or executive
WordNet
adj. arising from or characterized by prudence especially in business matters; "he abstained partly for prudential reasons"
Wikipedia
Prudential may refer to:
Prudential is an underground light rail station on the MBTA Green Line "E" branch, located below Huntington Avenue next to the Prudential Tower complex near Belvidere Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Prudential station is fully handicapped accessible, featuring low raised platforms and elevator service to the Huntington Arcade of the Shops at Prudential Center at the base of the Prudential Tower.
Usage examples of "prudential".
Sometimes Diana walked, strolling past the reflecting pool at the Christian Science Center mall, stopping for ice cream in the Prudential Center, peering into store and apartment windows in the Back Bay.
And as she walked past the towering Prudential Center Christmas tree, she was reminded that the coming of December also brought her that much closer to the birth of her child.
She had actually dissociated, she thought as she stepped onto the escalator that would take her to the Prudential Center mall.
In her distraction, Diana tripped getting off the escalator on the back side of the Prudential Center.
Cookie turned in her resignation to Prudential, and they sold the pitifully few pieces of furniture they had accumulated, and on a breezy summer afternoon, Nargoogian rowed them out to the Neptune in his jolly boat.
Bourbons appreciated that all hope of their legitimacy turned on an act of prudential forgetting.
Only he also invoked the prudential duties of the higher classes, and reasoned after the fashion of a man of wealth, a conservative clinging to the fortune he has acquired.
Evelyn stared at sheets of rain battering the Prudential Building, trying to understand what he was really saying.
From prudential motives they did not allow themselves to straggle, and by instinct they kept a look-out over the undulating plains to the eastward, ready with their loaded carbines.
Accessory, perhaps, to the impulse dictating the thing he was now about to do, were certain prudential motives, whose object might have been to revive the spirits of his crew by a stroke of his subtile skill, in a matter so wondrous as that of the inverted compasses.
Deliades circumspect, prudential, in all things moderate, a venerator of Athene.
He felt that this prudential course justified in a measure her anxiety.
Chapter 11 Containing many rules, and some examples, concerning falling in love: descriptions of beauty, and other more prudential inducements to matrimony It hath been observed, by wise men or women, I forget which, that all persons are doomed to be in love once in their lives.
The bus nosed its prudential way on to the crown of the road, and the gap between it and the lorry began to diminish.
It is highly probable that this prudential act was also his first step towards rectitude.