prest

English

Etymology 1

Verb

prest

1. (archaic) simple past tense 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,

Etymology 2

Old French prest

Noun

prest (plural prests)

1. (rare) A payment of wages in advance
2. A loan or advance (of money)
   • Francis Bacon

     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.

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Verb

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.
   • E. Hall

     Sums of money […] prested out in loan.

Anagrams

• strep, terps, TrEPS

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Middle French

Noun

prest m (plural prests)

1. loan

Related terms

• prester v

Descendants

• French: prêt

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Norwegian Bokmål

Wikipedia ^no

Noun

prest

1. priest

Inflection

	singular	plural
indefinite	prest	prester
definite	presten	prestene

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Old French

Noun

prest m (oblique plural prests, nominative singular prests, nominative plural prest)

1. loan
2. monetary gift

References

• prest on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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Swedish

Noun

prest

1. Obsolete spelling of präst.