prest

• Rhymes: -ɛst
• IPA^(key): /prɛst/

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prest

1. (archaic) simple past 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

From Middle English prest, from Old French prest.

prest (plural prests)

1. (rare) A payment of wages in advance
2. A loan or advance (of money)
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban , The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, , London: W Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     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.
   • 1548, King Edward VI, Act 2:

     the same tayles soe hereafter there to be levyed and striken, shalbe delyvered unto everye of the same Sheriffes without prest or other chardge to be sett upon them for the same.

From Middle English prest, 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.
   • 1550, Edward Hall, Chronicle:

     a greate part of our armie already prested, and in our wages to go forward

prest (comparative more prest, superlative most prest)

1. (obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.
2. (obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.
   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: Robert Triphook, , and William Sancho, , 1810, →OCLC:

     False knave ready prest,
     All safe is the best

3. (obsolete) Quick, brisk.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 71–74:

     The fauconer then was prest,
     Came runnynge with a dow,
     And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’
     But she wold not bow.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prest, adj., adv.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prest, pp.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prest, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prest, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prest, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• 'terps, terps, perst, strep, perts, TrEPS, Terps

Inherited from Late Latin praestus, from the Latin adverb praestō. Compare French prêt, Italian and Spanish presto.

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prest

1. soon

   Synonym: aviat

prest (feminine presta, masculine plural prests or prestos, feminine plural prestes)

1. quick

   Synonyms: prompte, ràpid

2. ready

   Synonyms: disposat, preparat

• “prest”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
• “prest”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “prest” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “prest” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prest, n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

From Old English prēost, from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros).

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

• IPA^(key): /preːst/

prest (plural prestes)

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

• parissh prest
• presthode
• prestly

• English: priest
• Scots: preest, priest
• Yola: priesth, vrieste

• “prẹ̄st, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prest, n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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

• prist, preist, preste, pyrst

• IPA^(key): /prɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

prest

1. willing, enthusiastic
3. prompt, alert, attentive
4. ready, set up, useable
   • c. 13th century, Robert of Gloucester, Chronicles

     He sende word , þat al prest to such batayle he was

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5. bold, daring
6. 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

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

1. a priest, minister (etc.)

• “prest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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prest

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

1. a priest, minister (etc.)

• “prest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

prest oblique singular, 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. indefinite accusative singular of prestr

prest ?

1. obsolete spelling of präst