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.

Something concerted or arranged beforehand; a previous agreement.

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand.

The act of preconcerting; preconcert.

To condemn beforehand.

A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.

To conform by way anticipation.

Anticipative or antecedent conformity.

To proclaim; to publish; also, to summon; to call.

A publishing by proclamation; a public proclamation.

To approve by preconization.

To conquer in anticipation.

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

A previous consent.

To consign beforehand; to make a previous consignment of.

Consolidated beforehand.

To constitute or establish beforehand.

A contract preceding another a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it.

To contrive or plan beforehand.

The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.

Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the pr/cordia.

Situated in front of the leg or thigh; as, the precrural glands of the horse.

A precursor.

A forerunning.

Preceding; introductory; precursory.

One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.

The position or condition of a precursor.

A carnivorous animal.

Living by prey; predatory.

Of or pertaining to prey; plundering; predatory.

To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or letter.

The act of pillaging.

In a predatory manner.

Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.

Prey; plunder; booty.

Premature decay.

The death of one person or thing before another.

Going before; preceding.

One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.

To declare or announce beforehand; to preannounce.

A dedication made previously or beforehand.

To define beforehand.

Previous deliberation.

Previous delineation.

The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.

To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine.

A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.

One who believes in or supports the doctrine of predestination.

The system or doctrine of the predestinarians.

Predestinarian.

To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to pre/lect.

The act of predestinating.

Determining beforehand; predestinating.

One who predestinates, or foreordains.

To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.

Predestination.

Capable of being determined beforehand.

Determined beforehand; as, the predeterminate counsel of God.

The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will.

To determine beforehand.

Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate.

Preceding the diastole of the heart; as, a prediastolic friction sound.

The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something.

Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.

A class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition.

Of or pertaining to a predicament.

One who predicates, affirms, or proclaims; specifically, a preaching friar; a Dominican.

Predicated.

The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion.

Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term.

Affirmative; positive.

A term applied to the pulse wave sometimes seen in a pulse curve or sphygmogram, between the apex of the curve and the dicrotic wave.

A prediction.

That may be predicted.

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

Prophetic; prognostic.

Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding.

One who predicts; a foreteller.

Predictive.

To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

To elect or choose beforehand.

A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.

To discover beforehand.

A previous discovery.

The state of being predisposed; predisposition.

Disposing beforehand; predisposing. That which predisposes.