prest
see also: Prest
Pronunciation Verb
  1. (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of press
Noun

prest (plural prests)

  1. (rare) A payment of wages in advance
  2. 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.
  3. A tax or duty
  4. (obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment
  5. (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.
Verb

prest (prests, present participle presting; past and past participle prested)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To give as a loan; to lend.
    • Sums of money […] prested out in loan.
Adjective

prest

  1. (obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.
    • All prest to such battle he was.
  2. (obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.

Prest
Proper noun
  1. Surname



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