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

To acquaint previously or beforehand.

Previous acquaintance or knowledge.

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.

The office of a precentor.

To teach by precepts.

Preceptive.

A precept.

Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.

One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See Commandery, n., 2.

A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.

The act of going before, or forward.

Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.

A predecessor.

An affected woman of polite society, esp. one of the literary women of the French salons of the 17th century. See aslo preciosity.

The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.

Fastidious refinement, esp. in language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness characteristic of the French pr/cieuses of the 17th century.

Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.

In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.

The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.

See Pr/cipe, and Precept.

A sudden or headlong fall.

Commanding; directing.

The quality or state of being precipitable.

Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.)

The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.

Any force or reagent which causes the formation of a precipitate.

With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner.

The quality or state of being precipitant; precipitation.

To dash or fall headlong.

In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly.

The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong.

One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.

Precipitous.

Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.

A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.

To make a precis of.

Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.

One who limits, or restrains.

The quality or state of being a precisian; the practice of a precisian.

A precisian.

The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction.

To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.

Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering.

Precocious.

Same as Pr/coces.

Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees.

In a precocious manner.

The quality or state of being precocious; untimely ripeness; premature development, especially of the mental powers; forwardness.

One contemporary with, but older than, another.

To cogitate beforehand.

Previous cogitation.

Previous cognition.

Cognizable beforehand.

To examine beforehand, as witnesses or evidence.

A collection previously made.

To compose beforehand.

An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception.

To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.

The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.