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.

The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.

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.

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.

Foreboding; ominous.

One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.

Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.

See Presbyopia.

Same as Presbyope.

Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery; presbyterial.

A presbytery; also, presbytership.

A female presbyter.

Presbyterian.

One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.

That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.

Same as Presbytery, 4.

The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

Presbyopia.

Same as Presbyopic.

Presbyopia.

The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.

Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.

Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.

With prescience or foresight.

Cutting off; abstracting.

Foreknowing; having foreknowledge; as, prescious of ills.

To give directions; to dictate.

One who prescribes.

Directed; prescribed.

The quality or state of being prescriptible.

Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper to be prescribed.

Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.

By prescription.

The doctrine that acceptable grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority, rather than be determined by common usage.

A person who believes that acceptable practices should be prescribed by an authority rather than be determined by the usage of the general public; especially, a supporter of prescriptive{2} rules of grammar; -- also used attributively, as prescriptivist grammar.

The first of the four pieces composing the dorsal part, or tergum, of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is usually small and inconspicuous.

Priority of place in sitting.

To select beforehand.

The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.

Previous sensation, notion, or idea.

Previous perception.

The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present.

Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown.

Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison.

The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.

Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.