prest
see also: Prest
Pronunciation
Prest
Proper noun
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see also: Prest
Pronunciation
- IPA: /prɛst/
- (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of press
prest (plural prests)
- (rare) A payment of wages in advance
- A loan or advance (of money)
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: Printed by W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628 ↗:
- Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.
- A tax or duty
- (obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment
- (legal) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
prest (prests, present participle presting; past and past participle prested)
Adjectiveprest
- (obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.
- All prest to such battle he was.
- (obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.
Prest
Proper noun
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