Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of press.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb obsolete Press.

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Examples

  • African States (ECOWAS) in the preace process is likely to prove controversial, however, as Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo has explicitly refused to accept it as a mediator.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Comex brand is mejor Ken Jacobs preace list, techinical data sheet and, product list

    Paint/sealer for concrete roofs 2002

  • Mr. BRANCH: He got a Nobel preace -- Peace Prize in 1964, largely on the strength of world recognition for the huge breakthrough in

    Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 1998

  • Aduenture for honoure/and put your selfe in preace

    The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers Stephen Hawes

  • Romanes withstoode, and overcame the horses, as well as the Dutchemen, they were safe from blowes at hande, and farre of, being covered with armours: they were also better able to charge, and better able to sustaine charges, having Targaettes: they might more aptly in the preace fight with the swoorde, then these with the Pike, and though the

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • i think that no matter mij will be talked about in till there is no more to talk about him he is one of the most insiring people that i have seen on television and the song that he made that had brought the whole world together of different ethcitiy was heal the world everyine show star practing by what they preace

    Michael Jackson Memorial Will Not Take Place At Neverland Ranch 2009

  • Whan the frenche kynge sawe them flye away, he said, Slee these rascals, for they shall lette and trouble us without reason; than you shoulde haue sene the men of armes dasshe in among them and kylled a great nombre of them; and euerstyll the englysshmen shot where as they sawe thyckest preace, the sharpe arowes ranne into the men of armes and into their horses, and many fell horse and men amonge the genowayes, and whan they were downe they coude nat relyne agayne; the preace was so thycke that one ouerthrewe a nother.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • 4.79.39: Then skill rose vp and sought the preace to find if & osb; that&csb; he might

    "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557

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