prest

¹ American  

[prest] / prɛst /

adjective

Obsolete.

1. ready.

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prest ² American  

[prest] / prɛst /

noun

Obsolete.

1. a loan.

2. an advance payment on wages.

3. prest money.

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prest ¹ British  

/ prɛst /

adjective

1. obsolete prepared for action or use; ready

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prest ² British  

/ prɛst /

noun

1. obsolete a loan of money

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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

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Example Sentences

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prest

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 James Russell Lowell

But of her sumptuous marriage and feast, And what fine lords and ladies there prest, The second part shall set forth to your sight,135 With marvellous pleasure, and wished for delight.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

Fraunc homme et de fraunc estat et eux nient seisi de luy, come de lour villein prest etc.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

E'en now, while to his death-couch he is prest, A wail rings round his head so pale and wan, And withered flowers are ready for his bier, That mock the dying with his past career.

From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various

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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