presa
noun
a mark, as :S:, +, or ยง, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
prese
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pluralof presa.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Trumpettes blew in the prese, Lordys stond on the grese, 1165 Ladyes lay ouer and be-held.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
Make all yon prese to stonde; The formost monke, his lyfe and his deth Is closëd in my honde.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
And as I thrust the prese amonge, By froward chaunce my hood was gone; Yet for all that I stayd not longe, Tyll at the kynge bench I was come.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
"Buon Dio!" exclaims the learned Zefirino, "Buon Dio! le pietre prese per tanta gente di chiesa!"
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Dante elsewhere expressed his abhorrence of the Donation:— Ahi Constantin, di quanto mal fu matre, Non la tua conversion, ma quella dote Che da te prese il primo ricco patre!
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
