AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
precipitate: overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.-lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure.-falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong.-ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a precipitate case of disease.-an insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold. the precipitate may fall to the bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may float at or near the surface.-to throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height.-to urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict.-to separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol.-to dash or fall headlong.-to hasten without preparation.-to separate from a solution as a precipitate. see precipitate, n.
precipitation: the act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong.-a falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence and rapidity.-great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity.-the act or process of precipitating from a solution.
precipitator: one who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.
precipitous: steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.-headlong; as, precipitous fall.-hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts.
precise: having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.-strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.
precisian: one who limits, or restrains.-an overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the english puritans.
precisianism: the quality or state of being a precisian; the practice of a precisian.
precision: the quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.
precisive: cutting off; (logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction.
preclude: to put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.-to shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.
preclusion: the act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.
preclusive: shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering.
precocious: ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees.-developed more than is natural or usual at a given age; exceeding what is to be expected of one's years; too forward; -- used especially of mental forwardness; as, a precocious child; precocious talents.
precocity: the quality or state of being precocious; untimely ripeness; premature development, especially of the mental powers; forwardness.
precognition: previous cognition.-a preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.
preconceive: to conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.
preconcert: to concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.-something concerted or arranged beforehand; a previous agreement.
preconizate: to proclaim; to publish; also, to summon; to call.
preconization: a publishing by proclamation; a public proclamation.-a formal approbation by the pope of a person nominated to an ecclesiastical dignity.
precontract: to contract, engage, or stipulate previously.-to make a previous contract or agreement.-a contract preceding another-a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it.
precoracoid: the anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.
precordial: situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the praecordia.
precrural: situated in front of the leg or thigh; as, the precrural glands of the horse.
precursor: one who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.
precursory: preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.-an introduction.
predate: to date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or letter.
predatory: characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.-hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.-living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
predecessor: one who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
predella: the step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.
predesignate: a term used by sir william hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
predestinarian: of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy.-one who believes in or supports the doctrine of predestination.
predestinate: predestinated; foreordained; fated.-to predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.
predestination: the act of predestinating.-the purpose of good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. see calvinism.
predestinator: one who predestinates, or foreordains.-one who holds to the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian.
predetermination: the act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of god's will.
predetermine: to determine (something) beforehand.-to doom by previous decree; to foredoom.-to determine beforehand.
predial: consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate.-attached to land or farms; as, predial slaves.-issuing or derived from land; as, predial tithes.
prediastolic: preceding the diastole of the heart; as, a prediastolic friction sound.
predicability: the quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something.
predicable: capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.-anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.-one of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
predicament: a class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition.-see category.
predicant: predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; preaching.-one who predicates, affirms, or proclaims; specifically, a preaching friar; a dominican.
predicate: to assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.-to found; to base.-to affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.-that which is affirmed or denied of the subject. in these propositions, "paper is white,"  "ink is not white,"  whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.-the word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.-predicated.
predication: the act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion.-preaching.
predicative: expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term.
predicrotic: a term applied to the pulse wave sometimes seen in a pulse curve or sphygmogram, between the apex of the curve and the dicrotic wave.
predict: to tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.-a prediction.
prediction: the act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.
predigestion: digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.-artificial digestion of food for use in illness or impaired digestion.
predilection: a previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.
predispose: to dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship.-to make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease.
predisposition: the act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.-previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose; susceptibility; -- applied to material things; as, the predisposition of the body to disease.
predominance: the quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination.-the superior influence of a planet.
predominant: having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence.
predominate: to be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart.-to rule over; to overpower.
predorsal: situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.
preeminence: the quality or state of being preeminent; superiority in prominence or in excellence; distinction above others in quality, rank, etc.; rarely, in a bad sense, superiority or notoriety in evil; as, preeminence in honor.
preeminent: eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preeminent in guilt.
preempt: to settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the united states; to take by preemption.
preemption: the act or right of purchasing before others.-the privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others.-the right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the united states) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants.
preemptive: of or pertaining to preemption; having power to preempt; preempting.
preen: a forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.-to dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds.-to trim up, as trees.
preengage: to engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy.
preengagement: prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection.
preexistence: existence in a former state, or previous to something else.-existence of the soul before its union with the body; -- a doctrine held by certain philosophers.
preexistentism: the theory of a preexistence of souls before their association with human bodies.
preface: something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.-the prelude or introduction to the canon of the mass.-to introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to preface a book discourse.-to make a preface.
prefatory: pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks.
prefect: a roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.-a superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.-in the greek and roman catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.
prefecundation: a term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation.
prefer: to carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc.-to go before, or be before, in estimation; to outrank; to surpass.-to cause to go before; hence, to advance before others, as to an office or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to prefer an officer to the rank of general.-to set above or before something else in estimation, favor, or liking; to regard or honor before another; to hold in greater favor; to choose rather; -- often followed by to, before, or above.
preferable: worthy to be preferred or chosen before something else; more desirable; as, a preferable scheme.
preference: the act of preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as, to give him his preference.-that which is preferred; the object of choice or superior favor; as, which is your preference?
preferential: giving, indicating, or having a preference or precedence; as, a preferential claim; preferential shares.
preferment: the act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference.-the act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion.-a position or office of honor or profit; as, the preferments of the church.
prefigure: to show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.
prefigurement: the act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured.
prefix: to put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement.-to set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish antecedently.-that which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure.
preformation: an old theory of the preexistence of germs.  cf. embo/tement.
prefrontal: situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.-a prefrontal bone or scale.
pregnable: capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort.
pregnancy: the condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.-figuratively: the quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility.
pregnant: being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.-heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.-full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth.-a pregnant woman.-affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
pregnantly: in a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.-unresistingly; openly; hence, clearly; evidently.
prehallux: an extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the preaxial side of the hallux.
prehensile: adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
prehension: the act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.
prehistoric: of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
prehnite: a pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals. it is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
prehnitic: pertaining to, or designating, a tetrabasic acid of benzene obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- probably so called from the resemblance of the wartlike crystals to the mammillae on the surface of prehnite.
preindesignate: having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. see predesignate.
prejudge: to judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand.
prejudical: of or pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided; as, a prejudical inquiry or action at law.
prejudicate: formed before due examination.-biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced.-to determine beforehand, especially to disadvantage; to prejudge.-to prejudge.
prejudication: the act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment.-a preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute.-a previous treatment and decision of a point; a precedent.
prejudice: foresight.-an opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.-a bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.-mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.-to cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.-to obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.
prejudicial: biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye.-tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental.
prelacy: the office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates.-the order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries.
prelate: a clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.-to act as a prelate.
prelatical: of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatical authority.
prelatist: one who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman.
prelatize: to bring under the influence of prelacy.-to uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.
prelibation: a tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.-a pouring out, or libation, before tasting.
preliminary: introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations.-that which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the year before entering college.
prelude: an introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent composers often synonymous with overture.-to play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance; to serve as prelude.-to introduce with a previous performance; to play or perform a prelude to; as, to prelude a concert with a lively air.-to serve as prelude to; to precede as introductory.
preluder: one who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude.
preludial: of or pertaining to a prelude; of the nature of a prelude; introductory.
prelumbar: situated immediately in front of the loins; -- applied to the dorsal part of the abdomen.
prelusive: of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.
premature: mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.-happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.-arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report.
prematurity: the quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius.
premaxilla: a bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. in man the premaxillae become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.
premaxillary: situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxillae; intermaxillary.-a premaxilla.
premeditate: to think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery.-to think, consider, deliberate, or revolve in the mind, beforehand.-premeditated; deliberate.
premeditation: the act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.
premier: first; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister.-most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.-the first minister of state; the prime minister.
premise: a proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.-either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.-matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.-a piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.-to send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.-to set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.-to make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
premium: a reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc.-something offered or given for the loan of money; bonus; -- sometimes synonymous with interest, but generally signifying a sum in addition to the capital.-a sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.-a sum in advance of, or in addition to, the nominal or par value of anything; as, gold was at a premium; he sold his stock at a premium.
premolar: situated in front of the molar teeth.-an anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar. see tooth.
premonition: previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.