prest
1 Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of prest1
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Late Latin praestus ready. See presto
Origin of prest2
1400–50; late Middle English prest ( e ) < Middle French prest, Old French, noun derivative of prester to lend < Latin praestāre to perform, vouch for, excel ( Medieval Latin: to lend), literally, to stand in front. See pre-, stand
Example Sentences
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The rosebud’s the blush o’ my charmer, Her sweet, balmy lip when ’tis prest: How fair and how pure is the lily!
From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes
For ere she left us, when we met, you prest My hand, and said V “I come with your spring-flowers.”
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
And still to love, though prest with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary!
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
By Wisdom, Truth, and Heed, was he Advanc'd an Alderman to be; Then Sheriffe; that he, with justice prest, And cost, performed with the best.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
See, close beside, in yellow drest, Is the prince consort of the hour; A bit of God's own sunshine prest Into a glorious golden flower!
From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Jean Blewett
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