AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
premonstratensian: one of a religious order of regular canons founded by st. norbert at premontre, in france, in 1119. the members of the order are called also white canons, norbertines, and premonstrants.
premunitory: of or pertaining to a premunire; as, a premunitory process.
prenominate: forenamed; named beforehand.-to forename; to name beforehand; to tell by name beforehand.
prenotion: a notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge.
preoccupancy: the act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.
preoccupate: to anticipate; to take before.-to prepossess; to prejudice.
preoccupation: the act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.-anticipation of objections.
preoccupy: to take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.-to prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice.
preocular: placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennae of certain insects.-one of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.
preopercular: situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the preoperculum.-the preoperculum.
preoral: situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth; as, preoral bands.
preordain: to ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain.
preparation: the act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.-the state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war.-that which makes ready, prepares the way, or introduces; a preparatory act or measure.-that which is prepared, made, or compounded by a certain process or for a particular purpose; a combination. specifically: (a) any medicinal substance fitted for use. (b) anything treated for preservation or examination as a specimen. (c) something prepared for use in cookery.-an army or fleet.-the holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. see suspension.-accomplishment; qualification.
preparative: tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.-that which has the power of preparing, or previously fitting for a purpose; that which prepares.-that which is done in the way of preparation.
preparator: one who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.
preparatory: preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
prepare: to fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.-to procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment.-to make all things ready; to put things in order; as, to prepare for a hostile invasion.-to make one's self ready; to get ready; to take the necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death.-preparation.
prepense: to weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate.-to deliberate beforehand.-devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense.
prepollency: the quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence.
prepollent: having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.-an extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.
preponderancy: the quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.-the excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
preponderant: preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance.
preponderate: to outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.-to overpower by stronger or moral power.-to cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.-to exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated.
preponderation: the act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons.
preposition: a word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in english always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.-a proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
prepositional: of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition.
prepositive: put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle.-a prepositive word.
prepossess: to preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of.-to preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.
prepossessing: of prepossess-tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.
prepossession: preoccupation; prior possession.-preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood.
preposterous: having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order.-contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end; utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted.
prepotency: the quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.-the capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.
prepotent: very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.-characterized by prepotency.
prepubic: situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis; pertaining to the prepubis.
prepubis: a bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.
preraphaelite: of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape.-one who favors or practices art as it was before raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
preraphaelitism: the doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before raphael. its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.
prerequisite: previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.-something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.
prerogative: an exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.-precedence; preeminence; first rank.
presage: something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.-power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.-to have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.-to foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.-to form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
presagement: the act or art of presaging; a foreboding.-that which is presaged, or foretold.
presager: one who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.
presbyopia: a defect of vision consequent upon advancing age. it is due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which produces difficulty of accommodation and recession of the near point of vision, so that objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use of convex glasses. called also presbytia.
presbyter: an elder in the early christian church. see 2d citation under bishop, n., 1.-one ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.-a member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.-a presbyterian.
presbyterian: of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed.-one who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the presbyterian church.
presbyterianism: that form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the presbyterian churches, taken collectively.
presbytery: a body of elders in the early christian church.-a judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. this body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.-the presbyterian religion of polity.-that part of the church reserved for the officiating priest.-the residence of a priest or clergyman.
presciendent: foreknowing; having foreknowledge; as, prescious of ills.
prescind: to cut off; to abstract.-to consider by a separate act of attention or analysis.
prescribe: to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.-to direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.-to give directions; to dictate.-to influence by long use-to write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.-to claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law.
prescription: the act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.-a direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.-a prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law.
prescriptive: consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.
prescutum: the first of the four pieces composing the dorsal part, or tergum, of a thoracic segment of an insect. it is usually small and inconspicuous.
presence: the state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.-the place in which one is present; the part of space within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the intervention of anything that forbids intercourse.-specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber.-the whole of the personal qualities of an individual; person; personality; especially, the person of a superior, as a sovereign.-an assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility; noble company.-port, mien; air; personal appearence.
present: being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.-now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance.-not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.-ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit.-favorably attentive; propitious.-present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present.-present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, " know all men by these presents," that is, by the writing itself, " per has literas praesentes; " -- in this sense, rarely used in the singular.-a present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense.-to bring or introduce into the presence of some one, especially of a superior; to introduce formally; to offer for acquaintance; as, to present an envoy to the king; (with the reciprocal pronoun) to come into the presence of a superior.-to exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.-to pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.-to make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.-hence: to endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.-to present; to personate.-to nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.-to nominate for support at a public school or other institution .-to lay before a public body, or an official, for consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance, or indictment.-to lay before a court as an object of inquiry; to give notice officially of, as a crime of offence; to find or represent judicially; as, a grand jury present certain offenses or nuisances, or whatever they think to be public injuries.-to bring an indictment against .-to aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present a pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of another.-to appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of an infant during labor.-anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a christmas present.-the position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present.
presentable: capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown.-admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as, a church presentable.
presentation: the act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.-exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show.-that which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation.-the act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.-the particular position of the child during labor relatively to the passage though which it is to be brought forth; -- specifically designated by the part which first appears at the mouth of the uterus; as, a breech presentation.
presentative: having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.-admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage.-capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.
presentee: one to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (eccl.), one presented to benefice.
presentiment: previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
presentive: bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic.
presently: at present; at this time; now.-at once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by.-with actual presence; actually .
presentment: the act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation.-setting forth to view; delineation; appearance; representation; exhibition.-the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself.-the official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.
presentoir: an ornamental tray, dish, or the like, used as a salver.
preservation: the act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation.
preservative: having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.-that which preserves, or has the power of preserving; a presevative agent.
preservatory: preservative.-a preservative.-a room, or apparatus, in which perishable things, as fruit, vegetables, etc., can be preserved without decay.
preserve: to keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.-to save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.-to maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence.-to make preserves.-to protect game for purposes of sport.-that which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural.-a place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.
preserver: one who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another.-one who makes preserves of fruit.
preside: to be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.-to exercise superintendence; to watch over.
presidency: the function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.-the office of president; as, washington was elected to the presidency.-the term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of madison.-one of the three great divisions of british india, the bengal, madras, and bombay presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president.
president: precedent.-occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.-one who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body.-the chief officer of a corporation, company, institution, society, or the like.-the chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the united states.-a protector; a guardian; a presiding genius.
presidential: presiding or watching over.-of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election.
presidio: a place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a garrison or guardhouse.
presphenoid: situated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone (i. e., the presphenoid bone).-the presphenoid bone.
presphenoidal: of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone; presphenoid.
press: an east indian insectivore (tupaia ferruginea). it is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. the fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.-to force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.-a commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.-to urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.-to squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.-to squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.-to embrace closely; to hug.-to oppress; to bear hard upon.-to straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.-to exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.-to try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience.-to drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.-to exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force.-to move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach.-to urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.-an apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.-specifically, a printing press.-the art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse.-an upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press.-the act of pressing or thronging forward.-urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.-a multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng.
presscapula: the part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
pressiroster: one of a tribe of wading birds (pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.
pressman: one who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.-one who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.-one of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.
pressor: causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor.
pressurage: pressure.-the juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.