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Definition of Pressie
1. a gift [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressie
Literary usage of Pressie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine by Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs (1909)
"The name in the old records is found spelled pressie, but the usual spelling has
... (I) John pressie, the emigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1638, ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1854)
"pressie, JOHN, m. Mary Gouge 4 10 63. Ch. John 1 8 64 ; Mary 30 9 65 ; William
2 June 71. PROUSE, JOHN, w. Hannah. Ch. Abagail 18 10 66. ..."
3. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"He married in 1862 pressie A. Eubanks, daughter of John Eubanks of South Carolina,
a state senator. The issue of the marriage was one son, John P. Wall, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Property Arising from the Relation Between Husband by Roper Stote Donnison Roper (1820)
"... was be an ex- the proper person to apply to for the assignment, and pressie "* •
the widow did all that was required of her in making the request (£). ..."
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