Chapter 1202

New presbyter is but old priest writ large. Milton.

3. (Presbyterian Ch.) A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.

4. A Presbyterian. [Obs.]

Hudibras.

Presbyteral <Xpage=1131>

Pres*byt"er*al (?) a. Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery; presbyterial.

Presbyterate <Xpage=1131>

Pres*byt"er*ate (?) n. [L. presbyteratus : cf. F. presbyt\'82rat .] A presbytery; also, presbytership.

Heber.

Presbyteress <Xpage=1131>

Pres"by*ter*ess , n. A female presbyter.

Bale.

Presbyterial <Xpage=1131>

Pres`by*te"ri*al (?) , a. [Cf. F. presbyt\'82ral .] Presbyterian. " Presbyterial government."

Milton.

Presbyterian <Xpage=1131>

Pres`by*te"ri*an (?) , a. [Cf. F. presbyt\'82rien .] 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.

Presbyterian <Xpage=1131>

Pres`by*te"ri*an , n. [Cf. F. presbyt\'82rien .] One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.

Reformed Presbyterians . See Cameronian .

Presbyterianism <Xpage=1131>

Pres`by*te"ri*an*ism (?) , n. [Cf. F. presbyt\'82rianisme .] 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.

Presbyterium <Xpage=1131>

Pres`by*te"ri*um (?) , n. [L.] (Arch.) Same as Presbytery , 4.

Presbytership <Xpage=1131>

Pres"by*ter*ship (?) , n. The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

Presbytery <Xpage=1131>

Pres"by*ter*y (?) , n. ; pl. Presbyteries (#) . [L. presbyterium , Gr. <?/. See Presbyter , and cf. Presbyterium .]

1. A body of elders in the early Christian church.

2. (Presbyterian Ch.) 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.

3. The Presbyterian religion of polity. [R.]

Tatler.

4. (a) (Arch.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest. (b) The residence of a priest or clergyman.

Gwilt.

Presbytia <Xpage=1131>

Pres*byt"i*a (?) n. [NL. See Presbyte .] (Med.) Presbyopia.

Presbytic <Xpage=1131>

Pres*byt"ic (?) , a. (Med.) Same as Presbyopic .

Presbytism <Xpage=1131>

Pres"byt*ism (?) , n. Presbyopia.

Presscapula <Xpage=1131>

Pres*scap"u*la (?) , n. [NL.] (Anat.) The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.

Prescapular <Xpage=1131>

Pre*scap"u*lar (?) , a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.

Prescience <Xpage=1131>

Pre"sci*ence (?) n. [F. prescience , L. praescientia . See Prescient .] Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.

God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.

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Pre/scient <Xpage=1132>

Pre/sci*ent (?) , a. [L. praesciens , -entis , p. pr. of praescire to foreknow; prae before + scire to know: cf. F. prescient . See Science .] Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.

Pope.

Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient , of this event. Bacon.

Presciently <Xpage=1132>

Pre"sci*ent*ly , adv. With presciense or foresight.

Prescind <Xpage=1132>

Pre*scind" (?) , v. t. [L. praescindere to cut off in front; prae before + scindere to cut asunder: cf. F. prescinder .]

1. To cut off; to abstract. [Obs.]

Norris.

2. (Metaph.) To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Presciendent <Xpage=1132>

Pre*sciend"ent (?) , a. [L. praescius ; prae before + scius knowing, fr. scire to know.] Foreknowing; having foreknowledge; as, prescious of ills . [R.]

Dryden.

Prescribe <Xpage=1132>

Pre*scribe" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Prescribed (?) ; p. pr & vb. n. Prescribing .] [L. praescribere , praescriptum ; prae before + scriebe to write. See Scribe .]

1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

Prescribe not us our duties. Shak.

Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run. Dryden.

2. (Med.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.

Syn. -- To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish.

Prescribe <Xpage=1132>

Pre*scribe" , v. i. 1. To give directions; to dictate.

A forwardness to prescribe to their opinions. Locke.

2. To influence by long use [Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

3. (Med.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

4. (Law) 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.

Prescriber <Xpage=1132>

Pre*scrib"er (?) , n. One who prescribes.

Prescript <Xpage=1132>

Pre"script (?) , a. [L. praescriptus , p. p. of praescribere : cf. F. prescrit . See Prescribe .] Directed; prescribed. " A prescript from of words."

Jer. Taylor.

Prescript <Xpage=1132>

Pre"script , n. [L. praescriptum : cf. OF. prescript .]

1. Direction; precept; model prescribed.

Milton.

2. A medical prescription. [Obs.]

Bp. Fell.

Prescriptibility <Xpage=1132>

Pre*scrip`ti*bil"i*ty (?) , n , The quality or state of being prescriptible.

Story.

Prescriptible <Xpage=1132>

Pre*scrip"ti*ble (?) , a. [Cf. F. prescriptible . ] Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper to be prescribed.

Grafton.

Prescription <Xpage=1132>

Pre*scrip"tion (?) , n. [F. prescription , L. praescriptio ,an inscription, preface, precept, demurrer, prescription (in sense 3), fr. praescribere . See Prescribe .]

1. The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.

2. (Med.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.

3. (Law) 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.

Bacon.

That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic of Englishmen. Macaulay.

&hand; Prescription differs from custom , which is a local usage, while prescription is personal, annexed to the person only. Prescription only extends to incorporeal rights, such as aright of way, or of common. What the law gives of common rights is not the subject of prescription . Blackstone . Cruise . Kent . In Scotch law, prescription is employed in the sense in which limitation is used in England and America, namely, to express that operation of the lapse of time by which obligations are extinguished or title protected. Sir T . Craig . Erskine .

Prescriptive <Xpage=1132>

Pre*scrip"tive (?) , a. [L. praescriptivus of a demurrer or legal exception.] (Law) 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.

The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive . J. M. Mason.

Prescriptively <Xpage=1132>

Pre*scrip"tive*ly , adv. By prescription.

Prescutum <Xpage=1132>

Pre*scu"tum (?) , n. ; pl. Prescuta (<?/) . [NL. See Pr\'91- , and Scutum .] (Zo\'94l.) 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.

Preseance <Xpage=1132>

Pre"se*ance (?) , n. [F. pr\'82s\'82ance . See Preside .] Priority of place in sitting. [Obs.]

Carew.

Preselect <Xpage=1132>

Pre`se*lect" (?) , v. t. To select beforehand.

Presence <Xpage=1132>

Pres"ence (?) , n. [F. pr\'82sence , L. praesentia . See Present .] 1. The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence .

2. 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.

Wrath shell be no more Thenceforth, but in thy presence joy entire. Milton.

3. Specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber.

In such a presence here to plead my thoughts. Shak.

An't please your grace, the two great cardinals. Wait in the presence . Shak.

4. The whole of the personal qualities of an individual; person; personality; especially, the person of a superior, as a sovereign.

The Sovran Presence thus replied. Milton.

5. An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility; noble company.

Odmar, of all this presence does contain, Give her your wreath whom you esteem most fair. Dryden.

6. Port, mien; air; personal appearence. "Rather dignity of presence than beauty of aspect."

Bacon.

A graceful presence bespeaks acceptance. Collier.

Presence chamber , &or; Presence room , the room in which a great personage receives company. Addison ." Chambers of presence ." Bacon . -- Presence of mind , that state of the mind in which all its faculties are alert, prompt, and acting harmoniously in obedience to the will, enabling one to reach, as it were spontaneously or by intuition, just conclusions in sudden emergencies.

Presensation <Xpage=1132>

Pre`sen*sa"tion (?) , n. Previous sensation, notion, or idea. [Obs.]

Dr. H. More.

Presension <Xpage=1132>

Pre*sen"sion (?) , n. [L. praesensio , fr. praesentire to perceive beforehand. See Presentient .] Previous perception. [Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

Present <Xpage=1132>

Pres"ent (?) , a. [F. pr\'82sent , L. praesens , -entis , that is before one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before + esse to be. See Essence .]

1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent .

These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.

2. 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.

I'll bring thee to the present business Shak.

3. Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident. "A present recompense." "A present pardon."

Shak.

An ambassador . . . desires a present audience. Massinger.

4. Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit. [R.]

5. Favorably attentive; propitious. [Archaic]

To find a god so present to my prayer. Dryden.

Present tense (Gram.) , the tense or form of a verb which expresses action or being in the present time; as, I am writing , I write , or I do write .

Present <Xpage=1132>

Pres"ent , n. [Cf. F. pr\'82sent . See Present , a. ] 1. Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present .

Past and present , wound in one. Tennyson.

2. pl. (Law) 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.

3. (Gram.) A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense.

At present , at the present time; now. -- For the present , for the tine being; temporarily. -- In present , at once, without delay. [Obs.] "With them, in present , half his kingdom; the rest to follow at his death." Milton.

Present <Xpage=1132>

Pre*sent" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Presented ; p. pr. & vb. n. Presenting .] [F. pr\'82senter , L. praesentare , fr. praesens , a. See Present , a. ] 1. 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.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the lord. Job i. 6

2. To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.

Lectorides's memory is ever . . . presenting him with the thoughts of other persons. I. Watts.

3. To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.

So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear, and arm him for the fight. Pope.

4. To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.

My last, least offering, I present thee now. Cowper.

5. Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.

Octavia presented the poet for him admirable elegy on her son Marcellus. Dryden.

6. To present; to personate. [Obs.]

Shak.

7. In specific uses; (a) To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

The patron of a church may present his clerk to a parsonage or vicarage; that is, may offer him to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted. Blackstone.

(b) To nominate for support at a public school or other institution . Lamb . (c) 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 . (d) 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 . (e) To bring an indictment against . [U.S] (f) To aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present a pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of another .

Pesent arms (Mil.) , the command in response to which the gun is carried perpendicularly in front of the center of the body, and held there with the left hand grasping it at the lower band, and the right hand grasping the small of the stock, in token of respect, as in saluting a superior officer; also, the position taken at such a command.

Present <Xpage=1132>

Pre*sent" , v. i. (Med.) 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.

Present <Xpage=1132>

Pres"ent (?) , n. [F. pr\'82sent .] Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present .

Syn. -- Gift; donation; donative; benefaction. See Gift .

Present <Xpage=1132>

Pre*sent" (?) , n. (Mil.) The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present .

Presentable <Xpage=1132>

Pre*sent"a*ble (?) , a. [Cf. F. pr\'82sentable .] 1. 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.

2. Admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as, a church presentable . [R.]

Ayliffe.

Presentaneous <Xpage=1132>

Pres`en*ta"ne*ous (?) , a. [L. praesentaneus . See Present , a. ] Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison . [Obs.]

Harvey.

Presentation <Xpage=1132>

Pres`en*ta"tion (?) , n. [L. praesentatio a showing, representation: cf. F. pr\'82sentation .] 1. The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.

Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires. Hooker.

2. Hence, exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show.

Under the presentation of the shoots his wit. Shak.

3. That which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation . [R.]

4. (Eccl.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.

If the bishop admits the patron's presentation , the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him. Blackstone.

5. (Med.) 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 .

Presentation copy , a copy of a book, engraving, etc., presented to some one by the author or artist, as a token of regard.

Presentative <Xpage=1132>

Pre*sent"a*tive (?) , a. 1. (Eccl.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative , collative, or donative .

Blackstone.

2. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage .

Spelman.