Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A meteor.
- noun A priest: often used in old writers as the title of a supposed Christian king and priest (Prester John) of a medieval kingdom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.
- noun obsolete One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.
- noun obsolete A priest or presbyter.
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- noun obsolete A
priest orpresbyter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Called prester by the Greeks, typhoon by the Romans, timmins by the Persians, and dragons de mer by the French, waterspouts annihilated ships and massacred sailors.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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The prester is an asp that moves quickly with its mouth always open and emitting vapour...
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The prester is an asp that moves quickly with its mouth always open and emitting vapour...
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I am prester mast (Prestre mace, maistre passe.), Prish, Brum!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I am prester mast (Prestre mace, maistre passe.), Prish, Brum!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Now a day was incomplete without its disclosure about this or that bishop or prester or whatnot having fa'thered a child on his sister, having poisoned his pre'decessor, or having embezzled a fortune to buy his male mistress a forty-eight-room cabin in the country.
Cold Copper Tears Cook, Glen 1988
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[60] In allusion to the swelling caused by the _prester_, Non ausi tradere busto, Nondum stante modo, _crescens fugere cadaver_!
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Nasidius by a prester which caused his form to swell to an unrecognisable size, and so on through the list of serpents, each episode closing with a brilliant epigram which clenches the effect.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Au prester couzin germaine, au rendre fils de putaine
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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Catholiques de la fidelité desquels il croye se pouvoir asseurer, il pourra les laisser dans leurs habitations après leur avoir fait prester serment de fidelité à sa Majesté ....
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV Francis Parkman 1858
agreatnotion commented on the word prester
n. a priest (OSPD)
December 10, 2006
fbharjo commented on the word prester
a pre-star or mythical meteor thrown from the clouds
September 7, 2009