Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 114

Prepubic (a.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis; pertaining to the prepubis.

Prepubis (n.) A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.

Prepuce (n.) The foreskin.

Preputial (a.) Of or pertaining to the prepuce.

Preraphaelism (n.) Alt. of Preraphaelitism

Preraphaelitism (n.) 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.

Preraphaelite (a.) Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape.

Preraphaelite (n.) One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.

Preregnant (n.) One who reigns before another; a sovereign predecessor.

Preremote (a.) More remote in previous time or prior order.

Prerequire (v. t.) To require beforehand.

Prerequisite (a.) Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.

Prerequisite (n.) Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.

Preresolved (imp. & p. p.) of Preresolve

Preresolving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preresolve

Preresolve (v. t. & i.) To resolve beforehand; to predetermine.

Prerogative (n.) An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.

Prerogative (n.) Precedence; preeminence; first rank.

Prerogatived (a.) Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.

Prerogatively (adv.) By prerogative.

Presage (v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

Presage (v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.

Presaged (imp. & p. p.) of Presage

Presaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Presage

Presage (v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

Presage (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.

Presage (v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.

Presageful (a.) Full of presages; ominous.

Presagement (n.) The act or art of presaging; a foreboding.

Presagement (n.) That which is presaged, or foretold.

Presager (n.) One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.

Presagious (a.) Foreboding; ominous.

Presbyope (n.) One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.

Presbyopia () A defect of vision consequent upon advancing age. It is due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which produces difficulty of accommodation and recession of the near point of vision, so that objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use of convex glasses. Called also presbytia.

Presbyopic (a.) Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.

Presbyopy (n.) See Presbyopia.

Presbyte (n.) Same as Presbyope.

Presbyter (n.) An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1.

Presbyter (n.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.

Presbyter (n.) A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.

Presbyter (n.) A Presbyterian.

Presbyteral (a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery; presbyterial.

Presbyterate (n.) A presbytery; also, presbytership.

Presbyteress (n.) A female presbyter.

Presbyterial (a.) Presbyterian.

Presbyterian (a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed.

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

Presbyterianism (n.) 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.

Presbyterium (n.) Same as Presbytery, 4.

Presbytership (n.) The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

Presbyteries (pl. ) of Presbytery

Presbytery (n.) A body of elders in the early Christian church.

Presbytery (n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.

Presbytery (n.) The Presbyterian religion of polity.

Presbytery (n.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest.

Presbytery (n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman.

Presbytia (n.) Presbyopia.

Presbytic (a.) Same as Presbyopic.

Presbytism (n.) Presbyopia.

Presscapula (n.) The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.

Prescapular (a.) Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.

Prescience (n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.

Prescient (a.) Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.

Presciently (adv.) With prescience or foresight.

Prescind (v. t.) To cut off; to abstract.

Prescind (v. t.) To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis.

Presciendent (a.) Foreknowing; having foreknowledge; as, prescious of ills.

Prescribed (imp. & p. p.) of Prescribe

Prescribing (p. pr & vb. n.) of Prescribe

Prescribe (v. t.) To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

Prescribe (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.

Prescribe (v. i.) To give directions; to dictate.

Prescribe (v. i.) To influence by long use

Prescribe (v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

Prescribe (v. i.) To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law.

Prescriber (n.) One who prescribes.

Prescript (a.) Directed; prescribed.

Prescript (n.) Direction; precept; model prescribed.

Prescript (n.) A medical prescription.

Prescriptibility (n.) The quality or state of being prescriptible.

Prescriptible (a.) Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper to be prescribed.

Prescription (n.) The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.

Prescription (n.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.

Prescription (n.) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law.

Prescriptive (a.) 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.

Prescriptively (adv.) By prescription.

Prescuta (pl. ) of Prescutum

Prescutum (n.) 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.

Preseance (n.) Priority of place in sitting.

Preselect (v. t.) To select beforehand.

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

Presence (n.) The place in which one is present; the part of space within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the intervention of anything that forbids intercourse.

Presence (n.) Specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber.

Presence (n.) The whole of the personal qualities of an individual; person; personality; especially, the person of a superior, as a sovereign.

Presence (n.) An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility; noble company.

Presence (n.) Port, mien; air; personal appearence.

Presensation (n.) Previous sensation, notion, or idea.

Presension (n.) Previous perception.

Present (a.) Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

Present (a.) Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance.

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