Proficio, proficis, pen. cor. proféci, pe. pro. profectum, proficere. Ex pro & facio compositum. Ci. To profite, to doe good, preuayle, or helpe much in a thing: to be wholesome, or medicineable: to proceede or go forward.Apud quos quÛ proficere mhil posset, &c. Cæs. With whom when he could nothing preuayle, &c.Et quisquam dubitabit quid virtute profecturus sic, qui tãtùm authoritate profecerit? Cic.Siquid celeritate irineris proficere possit. Cæs, If hee mighte any thing preuayle with speedie sourneying.Si quicquam seminis profecisse arbitrantur.Cic.Querelis quotidianis nihil proficere. Luceius Ciceroni. Nil testibus illis profeci.Virg.Nihil in crispio profecisti? Cic.MultÛ ad ea que quætimus, explicatio tua ista profecerit. C. This thy declaration shall helpe much to the vnderstanding of those things that we looke for.Ad bonitatem proficere, Vide AD præpositionem.Vsque ad mores proficere. Quint. To helpe euen to the instrnction of maners and honest behauiour.In summam proficere, Quint.To helpe to the finall perfrction.Parua certamina in summam totius profecerant spei.Liui. Matris iusiurandÛ partui non proficiet. Vlpian. The mothers othe shall nothing profite or helpe the childe.Adeps è lupis illitus, in his quæ rumpere opus est plurimÛ proficit. Pli. The fat of a woolfe annointed is very wholesome and medicinable to breake impostumes.Proficit ad cacocthe. Plin. Plurimum proficienre co cinere contra scabritias genaru. Plin. That ashes being very holesome against. &c.Proficit oculorum lachrymis. Phn. Proficitur, pen. cor. Impersonale. Plin. iun. Memoriæ frequenti emendatione proficitur. Often correction doeth much helpe the niemorie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prōfĭcĭo, fēci, fectum, 3, v. n and a. [pro-facio], to go forward, advance, gain ground, make progress.I.Lit. (very rare): cum quinqueremis sola non proficeret, Plin. 32, 1, 1, 4.—II.Trop., to go on, advance, make progress; to profit, derive advantage; to perform, effect, accomplish, obtain, etc. (class.; cf. procedo). A. 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—B. 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.—2. 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, adv., successfully (eccl. Lat.), Aug Ep. 80: incedere, Hil. Trin. 1, 22; Cassiod in Psa. 133, 2.