Preoblongata (n.) The anterior part of the medulla oblongata.
Preobtain (v. t.) To obtain beforehand.
Preoccupancy (n.) The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.
Preoccupate (v. t.) To anticipate; to take before.
Preoccupate (v. t.) To prepossess; to prejudice.
Preoccupation (n.) The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.
Preoccupation (n.) Anticipation of objections.
Preoccupied (imp. & p. p.) of Preoccupy
Preoccupying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preoccupy
Preoccupy (v. t.) To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.
Preoccupy (v. t.) To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice.
Preocular (a.) Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennae of certain insects.
Preocular (n.) One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.
Preominate (v. t.) To ominate beforehand; to portend.
Preopercular (a.) Situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the preoperculum.
Preopercular (n.) The preoperculum.
Preoperculum (n.) The anterior opercular bone in fishes.
Preopinion (n.) Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice.
Preoption (n.) Right of first choice.
Preoral (a.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth; as, preoral bands.
Preorbital (a.) Situated in front or the orbit.
Preordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain.
Preorder (v. t.) To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.
Preordinance (n.) Antecedent decree or determination.
Preordinate (a.) Preordained.
Preordination (n.) The act of foreordaining: previous determination.
Preparable (a.) Capable of being prepared.
Preparation (n.) The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.
Preparation (n.) The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war.
Preparation (n.) That which makes ready, prepares the way, or introduces; a preparatory act or measure.
Preparation (n.) That which is prepared, made, or compounded by a certain process or for a particular purpose; a combination. Specifically: (a) Any medicinal substance fitted for use. (b) Anything treated for preservation or examination as a specimen. (c) Something prepared for use in cookery.
Preparation (n.) An army or fleet.
Preparation (n.) The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension.
Preparation (n.) Accomplishment; qualification.
Preparative (a.) Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.
Preparative (n.) That which has the power of preparing, or previously fitting for a purpose; that which prepares.
Preparative (n.) That which is done in the way of preparation.
Preparatively (adv.) By way of preparation.
Preparator (n.) One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.
Preparatory (a.) 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.
Prepare/ (imp. & p. p.) of Prepare
Preparing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prepare
Prepare (v. t.) To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.
Prepare (v. t.) To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment.
Prepare (v. i.) To make all things ready; to put things in order; as, to prepare for a hostile invasion.
Prepare (v. i.) To make one's self ready; to get ready; to take the necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death.
Prepare (n.) Preparation.
Prepared (a.) Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions.
Preparer (n.) One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready.
Prepaid (imp. & p. p.) of Prepay
Prepaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prepay
Prepay (v. t.) To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.
Prepayment (n.) Payment in advance.
Prepenial (a.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the penis.
Prepense (v. t.) To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate.
Prepense (v. i.) To deliberate beforehand.
Prepense (v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense.
Prepensely (adv.) In a premeditated manner.
Prepollence (n.) Alt. of Prepollency
Prepollency (n.) The quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence.
Prepollent (a.) Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.
Prepollices (pl. ) of Prepollent
Prepollent (n.) An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.
Preponder (v. t.) To preponderate.
Preponderance (n.) Alt. of Preponderancy
Preponderancy (n.) The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
Preponderancy (n.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
Preponderant (a.) Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance.
Preponderated (imp. & p. p.) of Preponderate
Preponderating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preponderate
Preponderate (v. t.) To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
Preponderate (v. t.) To overpower by stronger or moral power.
Preponderate (v. t.) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
Preponderate (v. i.) 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.
Preponderatingly (adv.) In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
Preponderation (n.) The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons.
Prepose (v. t.) To place or set before; to prefix.
Preposition (n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.
Preposition (n.) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
Prepositional (a.) Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition.
Prepositive (a.) Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle.
Prepositive (n.) A prepositive word.
Prepositor (n.) A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor.
Prepositure (n.) The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship.
Prepossessed (imp. & p. p.) of Prepossess
Prepossessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prepossess
Prepossess (v. t.) To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of.
Prepossess (v. t.) To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.
Prepossessing (a.) Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.
Prepossession (n.) Preoccupation; prior possession.
Prepossession (n.) Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood.
Prepossessor (n.) One who possesses, or occupies, previously.
Preposterous (a.) Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order.
Preposterous (a.) Contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end; utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted.
Prepostor (n.) See Prepositor.
Prepotency (n.) The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
Prepotency (n.) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.
Prepotent (a.) Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.
Prepotent (a.) Characterized by prepotency.
Preprovide (v. t.) To provide beforehand.