prefident
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare Latin praefidens (“overconfident”). See pre- and confident.
Adjective edit
prefident (comparative more prefident, superlative most prefident)
- (obsolete) Trusting beforehand; overconfident.
- 1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts:
- If the Pastors themselves were not prefident and presumptuous over-valuers of their own apprehensions!
References edit
- “prefident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.