Webster's Dictionary 1913

7561

Prenominate (2)

Pre‐nom″i‐nate (?), v. t. To forename; to name beforehand; to tell by name beforehand. Shak.

7562

Prenomination

Pre‐nom′i‐na‐tion (?), n. The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first. Sir T. Browne.

7563

Prenostic

Pre‐nos″tic (?), n. [L. praenoscere to foreknow; prae before + noscere, notum, to know.] A prognostic; an omen. Gower.

7564

Prenote

Pre‐note″ (?), v. t. [L. praenotare; prae before + notare to note.] To note or designate beforehand. Foxe.

7565

Prenotion

Pre‐no″tion (?), n. [L. praenotio: cf. F. prénotion. See Prenostic.] A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. Bacon.

7566

Prensation

Pren‐sa″tion (?), n. [L. prensatio, from prensare, prehensare, v. freq. from prehendere to seize.] The act of seizing with violence. Barrow.

7567

Prentice

Pren″tice (?), n. [Aphetic form of apprentice.] An apprentice. Piers Plowman. “My accuser is my prentice.” Shak.

7568

Prenticehood

Pren″tice‐hood (�), n. Apprenticehood.This jolly prentice with his master bodeTill he was out nigh of his prenticehood. Chaucer.

7569

Prenticeship

Pren″tice‐ship, n. Apprenticeship.He served a prenticeship who sets up shop. Pope.

7570

Prenunciation

Pre‐nun′ci‐a″tion (?), n. [L. praenunciatio, fr. praenunciare to announce beforehand. See Pre-, and Announce.] The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.

7571

Prenuncious

Pre‐nun″cious (?), a. [L. praenuncius.] Announcing beforehand; presaging. Blount.

7572

Preoblongata

‖Pre‐ob′lon‐ga″ta (?), n. [NL. See Pre-, and Oblongata.] (Anat.) The anterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.

7573

Preobtain

Pre′ob‐tain″ (?), v. t. To obtain beforehand.

7574

Preoccupancy

Pre‐oc″cu‐pan‐cy (?), n. [See Preoccupate.] The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.

7575

Preoccupate

Pre‐oc″cu‐pate (?), v. t. [L. praeoccupatus, p. p. of praeoccupare to preoccupy. See Preoccupy.]1. To anticipate; to take before. “Fear preoccupateth it.” Bacon.2. To prepossess...

7576

Preoccupation

Pre‐oc′cu‐pa″tion (?), n. [L. praeoccupatio: cf. F. préoccupation.] 1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession...

7577

Preoccupy

Pre‐oc″cu‐py (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Preoccupied (–pīd); p. pr. & vb. n.Preoccupying (?).] [Cf. F. préoccuper. See Preoccupate, Occupy.] 1. To take possession of before another;...

7578

Preocular

Pre‐oc″u‐lar (?), a.(Zoöl.) Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennæ of certain insects. — n. One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.

7579

Preominate

Pre‐om″i‐nate (?), v. t. To ominate beforehand; to portend. Sir T. Browne.

7580

Preopercular

Pre′o‐per″cu‐lar (?), a.(Anat.) Situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the preoperculum. — n. The preoperculum.

7581

Preoperculum

‖Pre′o‐per″cu‐lum (?), n.(Anat.) The anterior opercular bone in fishes.

7582

Preopinion

Pre′o‐pin″ion (?), n. Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.

7583

Preoption

Pre‐op″tion (?), n. Right of first choice.

7584

Preoral

Pre‐o″ral (?), a.(Anat.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth; as, preoral bands.

7585

Preorbital

Pre‐or″bit‐al (?), a.(Anat.) Situated in front or the orbit.

7586

Preordain

Pre′or‐dain″ (?), v. t. [Pref. pre + ordain: cf. L. praeordinare.] To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain. Milton.

7587

Preorder

Pre‐or″der (?), v. t. To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain. Sir W. Hamilton.