Lexicographical Neighbors of Prestos
Literary usage of Prestos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1856)
"(Signed) " AC BAIRD prestos." (On the back titled thus:—) " Note of Fun'Is."
C.—No. 10 of process. " Note of Legacy's, No. 2. ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1808)
"... is in these prestos, and in men of religion, that haue forsaken ... as oure
prestos done now, and touched thy body, ..."
3. English Schools at the Reformation 1546-8 by Arthur Francis Leach (1896)
"... and to praye For the Founders soules; that ys to seye, 2 of the same prestos
to syng within the ..."
4. The Hengwrt Ms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1879)
"... [897] Sucho prestos bene the ... [900] Thes prestos as seith the booke ne
comme not to the mysterie of ..."
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