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Definition of Prest
1. a. Ready; prompt; prepared.
2. n. Ready money; a loan of money.
3. v. t. To give as a loan; to lend.
Definition of Prest
1. Verb. (archaic) (past of press) ¹
2. Noun. (rare) A payment of wages in advance ¹
3. Noun. A loan or advance (of money) ¹
4. Noun. A tax or duty ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prest
1. a loan [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prest
Literary usage of Prest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"The prest-O-Lite Company appealed from the decree, because the court adjudged
that the' filling, selling, and exchanging by the defendants of the ..."
2. The Metric Fallacy: An Investigation of the Claims Made for the Metric ...by Frederick Arthur Halsey, Samuel Sherman Dale by Frederick Arthur Halsey, Samuel Sherman Dale (1920)
"Past prest. The National Association of Manufacturers HENRY M. LELAND ...
American Bureau of Shipping Past prest. Soc. of Naval Architects and Marine ..."
3. The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text with Illustrative Notes by Geoffrey Chaucer (1851)
"Then spak our ost with rude speche and bold, And said unto the nonnes prest
anoon, " Com ner, thou prest, com ner, ... THE NONNE prest HIS TALE. ..."
4. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1890)
"RR co., L. Stanford prest, CF Crocker vice-prest, NT Smith treac., and JL Willcutt
sec.; City RR co., CF Crocker prest, T. Hopkins vice-prest, ..."
5. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"S. A Rosebud by my \ Her sweet balmy lip when 'tis prest : S. A down winding
Nith \ Or haply, prest with cares and woes, Man was made to Mourn. ..."
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