pressitant

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English

Etymology

From press.

Adjective

pressitant (comparative more pressitant, superlative most pressitant)

  1. (obsolete) gravitating; heavy
    • 1743, Henry More, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      [] neither the celestial matter of the vortices nor the air nor water are pressitant in their proper places []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pressitant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)