prest

• Rhymes: -ɛst

prest

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of press
   • 1850, Lydia Sigourney, Return to Native Land from Poems for the Sea, page 80:

     And when loftier mansions prest/Lure of pleasure on their guest,

Borrowed from Old French prest.

prest (plural prests)

1. (rare) A payment of wages in advance
2. A loan or advance (of money)
   • Francis Bacon

     Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.

3. A tax or duty
4. (obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment
5. (law) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.

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Borrowed from Old French prester, from Latin praesto, praestare.

prest (third-person singular simple present prests, present participle presting, simple past and past participle prested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To give as a loan; to lend.
   • E. Hall

     Sums of money […] prested out in loan.

prest (comparative more prest, superlative most prest)

1. (obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.
   • R. of Gloucester

     All prest to such battle he was.

2. (obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.

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• Terps, TrEPS, perts, strep, terps

prest

1. indefinite accusative singular of prestur

From Old French prest.

• preste

• IPA^(key): /prɛːst/, /prɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛːst, -ɛst

prest (plural prests)

1. loan, borrowing
2. tax, fee, levy
3. advance payment

• English: prest

• “prē̆st (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

From Old English prēost, from Late Latin presbyter.

• preest, preist, preost, preste, pruste, pruest, preoste, pryste, proste, proest, preyst, preeste, prist, priest

• IPA^(key): /preːst/

prest (plural prestes)

1. parish priest
2. A Christian cleric or priest
3. A non-Christian priest or religious head

• presthode
• prestly

• English: priest
• Scots: preest, priest

• “prẹ̄st (n.(3)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

From Old French prest, a form of prés, from Latin pressus.

• prist, preist, preste, pyrst

• IPA^(key): /prɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

prest

1. willing, enthusiastic
2. prompt, alert, attentive
3. ready, set up, useable
4. bold, daring
5. nearby, close

• prestly

• English: prest (obsolete)

• “prest (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

prest

1. quickly, speedily, hastily
2. enthusiastically, readily
3. totally

• “prest (adv.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

prest m (plural prests)

1. loan

• prester (verb)

• French: prêt

prest m (definite singular presten, indefinite plural prester, definite plural prestene)

1. a priest, minister (etc.)

• “prest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

prest m (definite singular presten, indefinite plural prestar, definite plural prestane)

1. a priest, minister (etc.)

• “prest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

prest m (oblique plural prez or pretz, nominative singular prez or pretz, nominative plural prest)

1. loan
2. monetary gift

• prest on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

prest ?

1. Obsolete spelling of präst