profect

profect

English

Etymology

From Latin profectus. Doublet of profit.

Noun

profect (plural profects)

1. (obsolete) Profit.
   • 1816, The Edinburgh Review‎, volume 27:

     Henry of Surrey was never for singular profect (profit) corrupted.

Verb

profect (third-person singular simple present profects, present participle profecting, simple past and past participle profected)

1. (obsolete) To benefit, profit, advance.
   • Published in 1858, Recantation of Thomas Garrard, The Church Historians of England‎:

     And that I have thowght that pardons doth profect them that be ded. And I have dowbted whether they profect them that be on lyef or not.