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Definition of Prester
1. n. A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.
2. n. A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John.
Definition of Prester
1. a priest [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prester
Literary usage of Prester
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and by Marco Polo, Henry Yule, Henri Cordier (1903)
"And when prester John beheld the King he was right glad, and greeted him with
something like ... So prester John ordered hum to be taken forth straightway, ..."
2. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1851)
"Nor was the blunder extraordinary, since the original prester John was said to reign
... Of the prester John of India we have reports furnished by William ..."
3. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"prester JOHN: SAID to be derived from the Persian ... Nor was the blunder
extraordinary, since the original prester ..."
4. Toscanelli and Columbus: The Letter and Chart of Toscanelli on the Route to by Henry Vignaud (1902)
"In the map of the world of the Borgia Museum, dating from the beginning or middle
of the Fifteenth Century, the kingdom of prester John is placed in a fork ..."
5. Toscanelli and Columbus: The Letter and Chart of Toscanelli on the Route to by Henry Vignaud (1902)
"The Portuguese could, moreover, find the same opinion expressed in the works of
Christian authors. Towards 1330 Friar Jordanus locates prester John in the ..."
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