Fit to be praised; praise-worthy; laudable; commendable.

In a praisable manner.

Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.

A religious service mainly in song.

Praiseworthy.

Without praise or approbation.

Appraisement.

One who praises.

In a praiseworthy manner.

The quality or state of being praiseworthy.

Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy.

Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

Pertaining to Prakrit.

A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.

A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.

a perambulator{3}; -- British informal shortened form.

See Praam.

To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.

A horse which prances.

Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.

A genus of umbelliferous plants, one species of which (Prangos pabularia), found in Tibet, Cashmere, Afghanistan, etc., has been used as fodder for cattle. It has decompound leaves with very long narrow divisions, and a highly fragrant smell resembling that of new clover hay.

Full of gambols or tricks.

One who dresses showily; a prinker.

Full of pranks; frolicsome.

A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.

An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; -- so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.

A variety of altered iolite of a green color and greasy luster.

Grass-green; clear, lively green, without any mixture.

Resembling prase.

Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

Talkative.

One who prates.

See Pratique.

Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolid/, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.

With idle talk; with loquacity.

Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.

Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.

Prattle.

One who prattles.

Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.

Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antenn/. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Pal/mon, Pal/monetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Pal/mon serratus.

An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.

Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object.

To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.

Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional.

Not using prayer; habitually neglecting prayer to God; without prayer.

a. n. from Pray, v.

With supplication to God.

To isolate{3} (a substance) beforehand.

Previous accusation.

Press.

A religious discourse.

One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.

The office of a preacher.

To discourse in the manner of a preacher.

The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice.

A preacher; -- so called in contempt.

A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively.

To acquaint previously or beforehand.

To act beforehand; to perform previously.

Previous action.

Prior to Adam.

An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.

Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods.

Previous adjustment.

Previous administration.

Lit., previous admission; admission, as of steam, to the engine cylinder before the back stroke is completed, thus increasing the cushioning.

To admonish previously.

Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.

To advertise beforehand; to preannounce publicly.

To make a preamble to; to preface; to serve as a preamble.

Of or pertaining to a preamble; introductory; contained or provided for in a preamble.

To walk before.

A walking or going before; precedence.

Preceding; going before; introductory.

See Perambulatory.

To announce beforehand.

Being or indicating the fourth syllable from the end of a word, or that before the antepenult.

In front, or on the ventral side, of the aorta.

To appoint previously, or beforehand.

Previous appointment.

An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge.

To forearm.

To arrange beforehand.

To press; to crowd. A press; a crowd.

Previous assurance.

Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.

Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers.

Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.

A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.

Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall.

A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3.

The office of a prebendary.

To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend.

A prebendaryship.

Situated in front of the bronchus; -- applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.

To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange.

One who prays.

Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as, precarious privileges.

The act of praying; supplication; entreaty.

Suppliant; beseeching.

To warn or caution beforehand.

Precautionary.

Of or pertaining to precaution, or precautions; as, precautionary signals.

Taking or using precaution; precautionary.

Preceding; antecedent; previous.

To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.

Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.

Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind.

Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions.

Beforehand; antecedently.

Going before; -- opposed to following.

To surpass; to excel; to exceed.

Excellence; superiority.

Excellent; surpassing.

A leader of a choir; a directing singer. The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir. The leader of the congregational singing in Scottish and other churches.

The office of a precentor.

To teach by precepts.