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.

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.

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.

To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.

Pressure.

The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

To increase the pressure on (a gas or liquid); as, pressurized oxygen.

The work of a press agent.

To give as a loan; to lend.

Payable.

A payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering of a service.

A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John.

The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium.

Nimble-fingered; having fingers fit for prestidigitation, or juggling.

Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling.

One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.

Delusion; illusion; trick.

Legerdemain; prestidigitation.

A juggler; prestidigitator.

Consisting of impostures; juggling.

Practicing tricks; juggling.

A fund for the support of a priest, without the title of a benefice. The patron in the collator.

Very quickly; with great rapidity.

Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.

Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight.

A leader in the dance.

Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.

In a presumable manner; by, or according to, presumption.

To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far.

By presumption.

One who presumes; also, an arrogant person.

Confidently; arrogantly.

The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof.

Based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof.

By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably.

Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct.

In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly.

The quality or state of being presumptuous.

Presupposition.

To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.