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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Prĕg'na-ble, a.p. 1027Capable of being taken or won by force; expugnable. [R.] Cotgrave.
  2. Prĕg'nance, n.p. 1027Pregnancy. [Obs.]
  3. Prĕg'nan-cy, n.p. 1027The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young. 2. The quality of being heavy with important contents, significance, or the like; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility.…
  4. Prĕg'nant, a.p. 1027Being with young, as a female; great with child; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Hence, heavy with important contents; full of consequence; of unusual significance. “Pregnant…
  5. Prĕg'nant, n.p. 1027One who is pregnant or with child. [Rare.] Dunglison.
  6. Prĕg'nant, a.p. 1027Taking; receiving, admitting; giving access. [Obs.] “Your own most pregnant and vouchsafed ear.” Shak. “A most poor man . . . pregnant to good pity.” Shak.
  7. Prĕg'nant-ly, adv.p. 1027In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.
  8. Prĕ'gra-vāte, v. t.p. 1027To bear down, to depress. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  9. Pre-grāv'i-tāte, v. i.p. 1027To descend by gravity. [Obs.] Boyle.
  10. Pre-gŭs'tant, a.p. 1027Tasting beforehand. [Rare.] Ed. Rev.
  11. Prĕ/gus-tā'/tion, n.p. 1027The act of tasting beforehand; foretaste.
  12. Pre-hĕnd', v. t.p. 1027To lay hold of; to seize; to take. [Obs.]
  13. Pre-hĕn'si-ble, a.p. 1027Admitting of being seized.
  14. Pre-hĕn'sile, a.p. 1027Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as the prehensile tail of a monkey.
  15. Pre-hĕn'sion, n.p. 1027A taking hold; a seizing, as with the hand or other member.
  16. Pre-hĕn'so-ry, a.p. 1027Adapted to seize or grasp; pre-hensile.
  17. Pré-his-tōr'ie, a.p. 1027Relating to a time before that described in written history; as, the prehistoric age.
  18. Prĕhn'ite, n.p. 1027(Min.) A pale-green mineral, of a vitreous luster, occurring in botryoidal and mammillary concretions, and in small prismatic crystals. It consists of silica, alumina, and lime, with some water. Dana.
  19. Pré'-in-dis-pōse', v. t.p. 1027To render indisposed beforehand.
  20. Pré/-in-strūct’, v. t.p. 1027To instruct previously. Sir T. More.
  21. Pré'-in-ti-mā'tion, n.p. 1027Previous intimation; a suggestion beforehand. T. Scott.
  22. Pre-jūd'ge', v. t.p. 1027To judge before hearing, or antecedently to full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case by…
  23. Pre-jŭd'gment, n.p. 1027Act of prejudging; decision before suitable examination.
  24. Pre-jū'di-ca-cy, n.p. 1027Prejudice; prepossession. [Obs.] Blount.
  25. Pre-jū'di-cal, a.p. 1027Pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided; as, a prejudicial inquiry or action at law.
  26. Pre-jū'di-cāte, v. t.p. 1027To determine beforehand, especially to disadvantage; to prejudge. Our dearest friend Prejudicates the business. Shak.
  27. Pre-jū'di-cāte, v. i.p. 1027To form a judgment beforehand or without due examination. Sidney.
  28. Pre-jū'di-cate, a.p. 1027Formed before due examination. “Ignorance and prejudicate opinions.” Bp. Taylor. 2. Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced. “Prejudicate readers.” Browne.
  29. Pre-jū'di-cate-ly, adv.p. 1027After a prejudiced manner.
  30. Pre-jū'di-cā'tion, n.p. 1027The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence. 2. (Rom. Law.) (a.) A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in…
  31. Pre-jū'di-ca-tĭve, a.p. 1027Forming an opinion or judgment without examination; prejudging. Henry More.
  32. Prĕj'ū-dĭçe, n.p. 1027Anticipative judgment; foresight. [Obs. and rare.] Spenser. 2. An opinion or decision of mind formed without due examination; prejudgment; a bias or leaning toward one side or the other of a question…
  33. Prĕj'ū-dĭçe, v. t.p. 1027To prepossess with unexamined opinions, or opinions formed without due knowledge of the facts and circumstances attending the question; to bias the mind of by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an…
  34. Prēj'ū-dĭ'cial, a.p. 1027Biased or blinded by prejudices; as, a prejudicial eye. [Obs.] Hooker. 2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. His going away the next morning, with all…
  35. Prĕj'ū-di'cial-ly, adv.p. 1028In a prejudicial manner; injuriously; disadvantageously.
  36. Prĕj'ū-dĭ'cial-ness, n.p. 1028The state of being prejudicial; injuriousness.
  37. Prē-knŏwl'edge, n.p. 1028Prior knowledge.
  38. Prĕl'a-cy, n.p. 1028The office or dignity of a prelate; government by prelates; church administration by high functionaries. Prelacies may be termed the greater benefices. Ayliffe. How many are there that call…
  39. Prē'lal, a.p. 1028Of, or pertaining to printing; typographical. [Obs. and rare.] “Prēlal faults.” Fuller.
  40. Prēl'ate, n.p. 1028A clergyman of a superior order, having authority over the lower clergy, as an archbishop, bishop, &c.; a dignitary of the church;—often, with the words derived from it, used invidiously, in English…
  41. Prēl'āte, v. i.p. 1028To act as a prelate; to fill a high ecclesiastical office. [Obs.] Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording. Latimer.
  42. Prēl'a-tē'i-ty, n.p. 1028The same as PRELACY. [Obs.]
  43. Prēl'ate-shĭp, n.p. 1028The office of a prelate. Harmar.
  44. Prĕl'a-tess, n.p. 1028A female prelate. Milton.
  45. Pre-lāt'ie or Pre-lāt'ie-al, a.p. 1028Pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatic authority.
  46. Pre-lăt′ic-al-ly, adv.p. 1028With reference to prelates.
  47. Pre-lā'tion, n.p. 1028The setting of one above another; preference. [Obs.] “A direct preference, or prelation; a preferring sin before grace.” Bp. Taylor.
  48. Prēl'a-tism, n.p. 1028Prelacy; episcopacy. [Obs.]
  49. Prēl'a-tist, n.p. 1028An advocate for prelacy, or the government of the church by bishops; a high churchman. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  50. Prēl'a-tīze, v. t.p. 1028To bring under the power or influence of prelacy. Land was busy with his more important plan of prelatizing the church of Scotland. Palfrey.
  51. Prēl'a-tīze, v. i.p. 1028To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions. He indeed [Cyprian] succeeded into an episcopacy that began then to prelatize. Milton.
  52. Prēl'a-try, n.p. 1028Prelaty; prelacy. [Obs.]
  53. Prēl'at-ūre or Prēl'at-ūre-ship, n.p. 1028The state or dignity of a prelate. Bailey.
  54. Prĕl'a-ty, n.p. 1028Prelacy;—usually in an invidious sense. Milton.
  55. Pre-lēct’, v. t.p. 1028To read publicly, as a lecture or public discourse. Horsley.
  56. Pre-lēct', v. i.p. 1028To discourse publicly; to lecture. Spitting was shown to be a very difficult act, and publicly prelected upon about the same time, in the same great capital. De Quincey.
  57. Pre-lĕc'tion, n.p. 1028A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. Hale.
  58. Pre-lēc'tor, n.p. 1028A reader of discourses; a lecturer. Sheldon.
  59. Prē'/lī-bā'tion, n.p. 1028A tasting beforehand or by anticipation; foretaste; as, a prælibation of heavenly bliss. 2. An effusion previous to tasting.
  60. Pre-lim'i-na-ry, a.p. 1028Introductory; previous; proëmial; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures.…