In a prelusory way.

Introductory; prelusive.

Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.

The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius.

A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxill/ become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill/; intermaxillary. A premaxilla.

To advocate.

Premeditated; deliberate.

With premeditation.

The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.

To merit or deserve beforehand.

Serving to reward; rewarding.

First fruits.

The first minister of state; the prime minister.

First; chief; as, a premi/re danseuse. The leading woman of a group, esp. in a theatrical cast. A first performance, as of a play; a first night.

to perform (a play, ballet, or composition) for the first time.

The office of the premier.

Previous to the millennium.

Rich in gifts.

To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.

Premise.

To premise.

A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc.

Situated in front of the molar teeth. An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar. See Tooth.

To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.

Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.

Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.

One who, or that which, gives premonition.

Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease.

A Premonstratensian.

To show beforehand; to foreshow.

One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St. Norbert at Pr/montr/, in France, in 1119. The members of the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants.

A showing beforehand; foreshowing.

One who, or that which, premonstrates.

Terminated abruptly, or as it bitten off.

Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history.

Previous motion or excitement to action.

See Pr/munire.

To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection.

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.

Of or pertaining to a premunire; as, a premunitory process.

Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.

Being or happening before birth.

The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered.

See Pr/nomen.

Serving as a prefix in a compound name.

To forename; to name beforehand; to tell by name beforehand.

The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first.

A prognostic; an omen.

To note or designate beforehand.

A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge.

The act of seizing with violence.

An apprentice.

Apprenticehood.

Apprenticeship.

The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.

Announcing beforehand; presaging.

The anterior part of the medulla oblongata.

To obtain beforehand.

The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.

To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.

Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antenn/ of certain insects. One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.

To ominate beforehand; to portend.

Situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the preoperculum. The preoperculum.

The anterior opercular bone in fishes.

Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice.

Right of first choice.

Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth; as, preoral bands.

Situated in front or the orbit.

To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain.

To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.

Antecedent decree or determination.

Preordained.

The act of foreordaining: previous determination.

Capable of being prepared.

Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.

By way of preparation.

One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.

Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.

Preparation.

Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions.

One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready.

To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.

Payment in advance.

Situated in front of, or anterior to, the penis.

Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense.

In a premeditated manner.

The quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence.

An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.

To preponderate.

The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.

Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance.

To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated.

In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.

The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons.

To place or set before; to prefix.

Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition.

Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. A prepositive word.

A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor.

The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship.

Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.

One who possesses, or occupies, previously.

See Prepositor.

To provide beforehand.

Situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis; pertaining to the prepubis.

A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.

The foreskin.

Of or pertaining to the prepuce.

One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.

The doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.

One who reigns before another; a sovereign predecessor.

More remote in previous time or prior order.

To require beforehand.

Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.

To resolve beforehand; to predetermine.

Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.

By prerogative.

To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.

Full of presages; ominous.

One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.