PREAMBULARY
PREAM'BULARYPREAM'BULATE, verb intransitive [Latin proe, before, and ambulo, to walk.]To walk or go before.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PREAMBULATE
PREAM'BULATE, v.i. [L. proe, before, and ambulo, to walk.]To walk or go before.
PREAMBULATION
PREAMBULA'TION, noun A preamble. [Not in use.]1. A walking or going before.
PREAMBULATORY
PREAM'BULATORY, adjective Going before; preceding.
PREAMBULOUS
PREAM'BULOUS, adjective Previous; introductory. [Not used.]
PREAPPREHENSION
PREAPPREHEN'SION, noun [See Apprehend.]An opinion formed before examination.
PREASE
PREASE, noun Press; crowd. [Not used. See Press.]
PREASING
PRE'ASING, participle present tense or adjective Crowding. [Not used.]
PREAUDIENCE
PREAU'DIENCE, noun [See Audience.] Precedence or rank at the bar among lawyers; right of previous audience.
PREBEND
PREB'END, noun [Latin proebeo, to afford, to allow.]1. The stipend or maintenance granted out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church. Prebends are simple or dignitary...
PREBENDAL
PREBEND'AL, adjective Pertaining to a prebend.
PREBENDARY
PREB'ENDARY, noun An ecclesiastic who enjoys a prebend; the stipendiary of a cathedral church.A prebendary differs from a canon in this; the prebendary receives his prebend in c...
PREBENDARYSHIP
PREB'ENDARYSHIP, noun The office of a prebendary; a canonry.
PRECARIOUS
PRECA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin precarius, from precor, to pray or entreat; primarily, depending on request, or on the will of another.1. Depending on the will or pleasure of anot...
PRECARIOUSLY
PRECA'RIOUSLY, adverb At the will or pleasure of others; dependently; by an uncertain tenure; as, he subsists precariously
PRECARIOUSNESS
PRECA'RIOUSNESS, noun Uncertainty; dependence on the will or pleasure of others, or on unknown events; as the precariousness of life or health.
PRECATIVE
PRE'CATIVEPRE'CATORY, adjective [Latin precor, to pray.] Suppliant; beseeching.
PRECATORY
PRE'CATORY, a. [L. precor, to pray.] Suppliant; beseeching.
PRECAUTION
PRECAU'TION, noun [Latin precautus, proecaveo; proe, before, and caveo, to take care.] Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good i...
PRECAUTIONAL
PRECAU'TIONAL, adjective Preventive of mischief.
PRECAUTIONARY
PRECAU'TIONARY, adjective Containing previous caution; as precautionary advice or admonition.1. Proceeding from previous caution; adapted to prevent mischief or secure good; as ...
PRECEDANEOUS
PRECEDA'NEOUS, adjective [form precede, Latin proecedo.]Preceding; antecedent; anterior. [Not used.]
PRECEDE
PRECE'DE, verb transitive [Latin proecedo; proe, before, and cedo, to more.]1. To go before in the order of time. The corruption of morals precedes the ruin of a state.2. To go ...
PRECEDED
PRECE'DED, participle passive Being gone before.
PRECEDENCE
PRECE'DENCEPRECE'DENCY, noun The act or state of going before; priority in time; as the precedence of one event.1. The state of going or being before in rank or dignity or the p...
PRECEDENCY
PRECE'DENCY, n. The act or state of going before; priority in time; as the precedence of one event.1. The state of going or being before in rank or dignity or the place of honor...
PRECEDENT
PRECE'DENT, adjective Going before in time; anterior; antecedent; as precedent services; a precedent fault of the will.The world, or any part thereof, could not be precedent to ...