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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Or were you prest by one who nurst Bleak memories of love gone by, Whose heart, like a star fallen, burst In dark and erring vacancy?
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
Was þer neyþer clerc, ne prest, Þat mithe liften it to his brest: Þerwit putten the chaunpiouns, 1032 Þat þider comen with þe barouns.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
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
Farewell, O thou unworthy and wholly useless guest; Thy oxen for the Supper in truth were better prest.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Twice by your favour is Himálaya blest,— This towery mountain that your feet have prest, And this my moving form is happier still To wait your bidding, to perform your will.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
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