From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prompt \Prompt\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Prompted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prompting}.]
1. To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
God first . . . prompted on the infirmities of the infant world by temporal prosperity. --Jer. Taylor.
And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams. --Pope.
3. To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: persuasion formulated as a suggestion [syn: {suggestion}]
2: a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken); "the audience could hear his prompting" [syn: {prompt}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "prompting": actuation, aide-memoire, animation, cue, direction, flapper, hint, influence, inner-direction, jogger, memorandum, motivation, moving, other-direction, prompt, prompter, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, stimulation, tickler
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