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.

The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.

A surmise previously formed.

Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart; as, the presystolic friction sound.

Situated in front of the temporal bone.

The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.

See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless.

To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to.

A pretender; a claimant.

Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend.

The act of pretending; pretense.

One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant. The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law.

The character, right, or claim of a pretender.

As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.

Pretended; feigned.

Abounding in pretenses.

Not having or making pretenses.

The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.

Fitted for trial beforehand; experimental.

Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.

More than human.

Passed through; antecedent; previous; as, preterient states.

Old name of the tense also called imperfect.

One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor.

The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

Same as Preterit.

Same as Preteritness.

The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.

Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.

The quality or state of being past.

Past; as, preterlapsed ages.

Exceeding the limits of law.

The act of passing by or omitting; omission.

To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor.

The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition.

Preternaturalness.

In a preternatural manner or degree.

The quality or state of being preternatural.

Old name of the tense also called preterit.

Old name of the tense also called pluperfect.

Earlier than Tertiary.

To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely.

Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.

A pretext.

Situated in front of the tibia.

A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans.

Pretorian.

A soldier of the pretorian guard.

The general's tent in a Roman camp; hence, a council of war, because held in the general's tent.

The office or dignity of a pretor.

To torture beforehand.

In a pretty manner.

The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense.

In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.

Spoken or speaking prettily.

Somewhat pretty.

Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc.

To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.

A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against.

Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive.

So as to prevail.

Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy.

The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.

See Prevalence.

Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.

In a prevalent manner.

To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.

The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.

One who prevaricates.

Proof.

A going before; anticipation in sequence or order.

The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness.

To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent.

The act of going before; anticipation.

Going before; preceding; hence, preventive.

To come before the usual time.

The quality or state of being preventable.

Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.

That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.

One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another.

So as to prevent or hinder.

The act of going, or state of being, before.

Tending to prevent.

That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.

In a preventive manner.

Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.

Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.

Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.

The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

To foresee.

Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

Foreseeing; prescient.

To warn beforehand; to forewarn.

To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer.

Disposed to take prey.

An anterior zygapophysis.

A corruption of pair royal. See under Pair, n.

A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles.

A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.