PREFER
PREFER', verb transitive [Latin proefero; proe, before, and fero, to bear or carry.]1. Literally, to bear or carry in advance, in the mind, affections or choice; hence, to regar...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PREFERABLE
PREF'ERABLE, adjective Worthy to be preferred or chosen before something else; more eligible; more desirable. Virtue is far preferable to vice, even for its pleasures in this li...
PREFERABLENESS
PREF'ERABLENESS, noun The quality or state of being preferable.
PREFERABLY
PREF'ERABLY, adverb In preference; in such a manner as to prefer one thing to another.How comes he to choose Plautus preferably to Terance?
PREFERENCE
PREF'ERENCE, noun The act of preferring one thing before another; estimation of one thing above another; choice of one thing rather than another.Leave the critics on either side...
PREFERMENT
PREFER'MENT, noun Advancement to a higher office, dignity or station. Change of manners and even of character often follows preferment A profligate life should be considered a d...
PREFERRED
PREFER'RED, participle passive Regarded above others; elevated in station.
PREFERRER
PREFER'RER, noun One who prefers.
PREFERRING
PREFER'RING, participle present tense Regarding above others; advancing to a higher station; offering; presenting.
PREFIGURATE
PREFIG'URATE, verb transitive [See Prefigure.] To show by antecedent representation. [Little used.]
PREFIGURATION
PREFIGURA'TION, noun Antecedent representation by similitude.A variety of prophecies and prefigurations had their punctual accomplishment in the author of this institution.
PREFIGURATIVE
PREFIG'URATIVE, adjective Showing by previous figures, types of similitude. The sacrifice of the paschal lamb was prefigurative of the death of Christ.
PREFIGURE
PREFIG'URE, verb transitive [Latin proe, before, and figuro, to fashion.]To exhibit by antecedent representation, or by types and similitude.In the Old Testament, things are pre...
PREFIGURED
PREFIG'URED, participle passive Exhibited by antecedent signs, types or similitude.
PREFIGURING
PREFIG'URING, participle present tense Showing antecedently by similitude.
PREFINE
PREFI'NE, verb transitive [Latin proefinio; proe, before, and finio, to limit; finis, limit.] To limit beforehand. [Little used.]
PREFINITION
PREFINI'TION, noun Previous limitation. [Little used.]
PREFIX
PREFIX', verb transitive [Latin proefigo; proe, before, and figo, to fix.]1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word; to p...
PREFIXED
PREFIX'ED, participle passive Set before; appointed beforehand; settled.
PREFIXING
PREFIX'ING, participle present tense Putting before; previously appointing; establishing.
PREFIXION
PREFIX'ION, noun The act of prefixing.
PREFORM
PREFORM', verb transitive [pre and form.] To form beforehand.
PREFORMATIVE
PREFORM'ATIVE, noun [Latin proe, before, and formative.]A formative letter at the beginning of a word.
PREFULGENCY
PREFUL'GENCY, noun [Latin proefulgens; proe, before, and fulgeo, to shine.] Superior brightness or effulgency.
PREGNABLE
PREG'NABLE, adjective That may be taken or won by force; expugnable. [Little used.]
PREGNANCY
PREG'NANCY, noun [See Pregnant.] The state of a female who has conceived, or is with child.1. Fertility; fruitfulness; inventive power; as the pregnancy of wit or invention.Preg...
PREGNANT
PREG'NANT, adjective [Latin proegnans; supposed to be compounded of proe, before, and geno; Gr. to beget.]1. Being with young, as a female; breeding; teeming.2. Fruitful; fertil...