Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To furnish; pay out; put out as a loan; lend.
- noun An occasional preterit and past participle of press.
- Quickly; promptly; immediately.
- noun A loan of money; hence, a loan in general; also, ready money.
- noun Formerly, a duty in money paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
- Ready; prompt; quick.
- At hand; near.
- Bold; valiant.
- Neat; comely; proper.
- noun A Middle English form of
priest .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
press . - adjective obsolete Ready; prompt; prepared.
- adjective obsolete Neat; tidy; proper.
- adjective money formerly paid to men when they enlisted into the British service; -- so called because it bound those that received it to be ready for service when called upon.
- transitive verb obsolete To give as a loan; to lend.
- noun obsolete Ready money; a loan of money.
- noun (Law) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
press . - noun rare A payment of
wages inadvance - noun A
loan oradvance (of money) - noun A
tax orduty - noun obsolete A sum of money paid to a
soldier orsailor uponenlistment - verb obsolete, transitive To
give as aloan ; tolend .
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Examples
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By some strange irony of circumstance there happened to be in the English language a wordpressedwhich tallied almost exactly in pronunciation with the old French word prest, so long employed, as we have seen, to differentiate from his fellows the man who, by the devious means we have here described, was made ready for the sea service.
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To "prest" a man meant to enlist him by means of what was technically known as "prest" money -- "prest" being the English equivalent of the obsolete French _prest_, now
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"prest" subject it was held to be of no vitiating force.
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"prest" money stood for what is nowadays, in both services, commonly termed the "king's shilling," and the man who, either voluntarily or under duress, accepted or received that shilling at the recruiter's hands, was said to be "prested" or "prest."
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The "prest" man disappeared, [Footnote: The Law Officers of the Crown retained him, on paper, until the close of the eighteenth century -- an example in which they were followed by the Admiralty.
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Hunger fierce within him also, and his parch'd lips prest in pain,
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If the issue of his attending the convention “should be further prest which I hope it will not, as I have no inclination to go,” Washington asked, “what had I best do?”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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If the issue of his attending the convention “should be further prest which I hope it will not, as I have no inclination to go,” Washington asked, “what had I best do?”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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If the issue of his attending the convention “should be further prest which I hope it will not, as I have no inclination to go,” Washington asked, “what had I best do?”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Ai noed Ai shud hab rited dat ‘leg-end’ az sune az Ai prest ‘Add Commint’!
To her surprise, Bella - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
bilby commented on the word prest
We don't appear to have a list of moneylending words.
November 19, 2011