An introduction.

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.

To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship.

The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.

The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination.

Predominance.

Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence.

In a predominant manner.

To rule over; to overpower.

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.

To foredoom.

Situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.

Cleared and ready for engagement, as a ship.

With ease.

Proof.

To elect beforehand.

Election beforehand.

The quality or state of being pre/minent; superiority in prominence or in excellence; distinction above others in quality, rank, etc.; rarely, in a bad sense, superiority or notoriety in evil; as, pre/minence in honor.

Eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, pre/minent in guilt.

In a pre/minent degree.

To employ beforehand.

To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption.

The act or right of preemption. The act or right of purchasing before others. The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others. The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants.

One who holds a prior right to purchase certain public land.

Of or pertaining to pre/mption; having power to pre/mpt; pre/mpting.

One who pre/mpts; esp., one who pre/mpts public land.

Pertaining to pre/mption.

To dress up neatly and smartly; to make oneself well-groomed and well-dressed.

To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy.

Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection.

To erect beforehand.

Press; throng.

To establish beforehand.

Settlement beforehand.

Infinite previous duration.

Previous examination.

To examine beforehand.

To exist previously; to exist before something else; to exist before the current activity commenced; as, preexisting illnesses are not covered by this insurance policy.

Existence in a former state, or previous to something else.

Pre/xistence.

Existing previously; preceding existence; as, a pre/xistent state.

The theory of a pre/xistence of souls before their association with human bodies.

Previous esteem or estimation.

Previous expectation.

To make a preface.

The writer of a preface.

Prefatory.

In a prefatory manner; by way of preface.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks.

A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

Of or pertaining to a prefect.

The office or jurisdiction of a prefect.

The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.

A term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation.

Of or pertaining to prefecundation.

To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc.

The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness.

Worthy to be preferred or chosen before something else; more desirable; as, a preferable scheme.

The quality or state of being preferable.

In preference; by choice.

The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as, to give him his preference.

Giving, indicating, or having a preference or precedence; as, a preferential claim; preferential shares.