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.

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.

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.

One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice.

One who presents.

Implying actual presence; present, immediate.

State of being actually present.

To make present.

Feeling or perceiving beforehand.

Making present.

Presentific.

Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.

Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding.

See Presension.

Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic.

At present; at this time; now.

The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation.

The quality or state of being present; presence.

An ornamental tray, dish, or the like, used as a salver.

Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.

The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation.

That which preserves, or has the power of preserving; a presevative agent.

A preservative.

That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural.

One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another.

To foreshow.

To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.

See Presidency.

The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.

One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body. The chief officer of a corporation, company, institution, society, or the like. The chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the United States.

Presiding or watching over.

The office and dignity of president; presidency.

One who presides.

A guard.

Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.

a. n. from Preside.

A place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a garrison or guardhouse.

The act of signifying or showing beforehand.

To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.

The presphenoid bone.

Of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone; presphenoid.

Prevertebral.

An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.

A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.

One who, or that which, presses.

See Press gang, under Press.

Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity.

The act of pressing; pressure.

One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.

Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.

Gravitating; heavy.

Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation.

Closely; concisely.

One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.

Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor.