prest
See also: Prest
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Verb
prest
- (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of press
- 1850, Lydia Sigourney, Return to Native Land from Poems for the Sea, page 80:
- And when loftier mansions prest/Lure of pleasure on their guest,
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French prest.
Noun
prest (plural prests)
- (rare) A payment of wages in advance
- A loan or advance (of money)
- Francis Bacon
- Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.
- Francis Bacon
- A tax or duty
- (obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment
- (law) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Old French prester, from Latin praesto, praestare.
Verb
prest (third-person singular simple present prests, present participle presting, simple past and past participle prested)
Icelandic
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French prest.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prɛːst/, /prɛst/
- Rhymes: -ɛːst, -ɛst
Descendants
- English: prest
References
- “prē̆st (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.
Etymology 2
From Old English prēost, from Late Latin presbyter.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /preːst/
Noun
prest (plural prestes)
References
- “prẹ̄st (n.(3)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.
Etymology 3
From Old French prest, a form of prés, from Latin pressus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prɛst/
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Adjective
prest
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: prest (obsolete)
References
- “prest (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.
References
- “prest (adv.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.
Middle French
Related terms
- prester (verb)
Norwegian Bokmål
Derived terms
Terms derived from prest
Norwegian Nynorsk
Derived terms
Terms derived from prest
Old French
Swedish
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