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 Prejudice: m. A preiudice; a (future) dammage, hurt, hinderance; also, as Prejugé. Prejudiciable: com. Preiudiciall, dammageous, hurtfull, hindering.

Prejudicier. To preiudice, hurt, harme, hinder.

Prejugé: m. A preiudication, or fore-iudgement.

Prejugé: m. ée: f. Preiudicated, fore-iudged.

Prejugement: m. A fore-iudgement, or former iudgement; a case ruled in Law; a preiudication, or hurt done to a cause by a Precedent.

Prejuger. To preiudicate, preiudge, or foreiudge; to rule, or direct the opinion of Judges by a former iudgement.

Prelasser. To carrie himselfe grauely, portly, pompously, magnificently; to strout, or square it like a Prelate.

Prelat: m. A Prelate.  Table de Prelat. A bountifull, or well-furnished boord.  Il iure comme vn Prelat. (A Huguenots comparison.) Prelation: f. Preferment before others in purchasing.

Prelature: f. A Prelature, or Prelateship.

Prele: f. Small Horse-taile, Tadpipes, naked Shaue-graße.

Prelingant: m. A boasting asse, proud coxcombe, statelie gull.

Prelude: m. A Preludium, Preface, Preamble; a flourish before the matter; and in Musicke, voluntarie before a lesson, &c.

Prematurité: f. Prematuritie; hastie ripenesse, quicke ripening, forward or timelie growth.

Premeditation: f. Premeditation, forethought, or forethinking.

Premedité: m. ée: f. Premeditated, forethought of.

Premediter. To premeditate, forethinke of, or thinke of beforehand.

Prémesse. Looke Presmesse. Premices: m. The first fruits of.

Premie: m. A recompence, guerdon, reward.

Premier: m. ere: f. Prime, first, formost; principall, chiefe, best.  Il n'est que les premieres amours: Prov. The first loue is the fastest, or faithfullest; no loue's like to the first.

Premier. (Adverb.) First, at first, the first time; also, before, or aboue, others.  Premier que. Rather then, before, or ere, that.   Au premier. First and formost; in or at the beginning.  Tout premier. First and formost; or, at the very first.  Qui premier arrive au moulin, le premier doit mouldre: Pro. He that first comes must first be serued.  Qui premier prend ne s'en repent: Prov. He that takes first his hast repents not.

Premierement. First; first and formost; with the first, at the verie beginning.  Tout premierement. At the verie first, before all other things.

Premise: f. A foreplacing, a setting before.

Premonstré. freres de la prem. An Order of Friers which weare white habites.

Premonstré: m. ée: f. Premonstrated, portended, fore-*shewed, told, or pointed at beforehand.

Premourant: m. ante: f. Dying first, or before another.

Prenant: m. ante: f. Taking; putting; apprehending; seising; accepting, receiuing; imbracing; vndertaking; holding, adhering vnto. Tenir par prenant. Looke Part-prenant.

Prendre. To take; seise, catch, apprehend, snatch at; receiue, accept of; imbrace, vndertake; also, to cleaue, sticke, adhere, hold fast vnto; also, to put, or put on. Prendre barre sur. To haue th' aduantage, or start of; to be beforehand with. Prendre de bec l'un l'autre. To be at it, by the chaps, or with bitter words. Prendre bien. Il leur print bien que. It was well for them, or they had good fortune, that. Prendre vn boeuf par les cornes. Looke Boeuf, or Corne. Prendre le bonnet. To passe Maister of Art. Prendre au bric. To take at aduantage; or, to wrest a hastie word vnto a confession. Prendre le cas. pren le cas que. Admit, suppose, allow we you, that. Prendre la Castille pour autruy. To vndertake another mans quarell. Prendre chair. To battle, get flesh, grow fat. Prendre la chevre. To take in dudgeon, or snuffe; to take the pet, or pepper in the nose. Prendre la clef des champs. To gaine, or take libertie, giue it selfe roome, flie or get out. Prendre conclusions. as vnder Conclusion. Prendre le dueil. To put on mourning apparell. Prendre expedition. To renew a cause hanging, or suspended, in a Court; to bring, or procure a Reuiuor with an especiall request, or clause, for speedie dispatch. Prendre le frein aux dents. To resist Authoritie, as a stubborne iade his rider; obstinately to proceed against all aduise. Prendre de gallico. See Gallico. Prendre la garite. To flie, runne away, slip or take into a lurking hole. Prendre de hergne. A tree to be bred, or grow vp, of a sucker. Prendre vn homme ras par les cheveux. Cruelly to exact, or foolishly to expect, from a man more then he is able to yeeld. Prendre honneur d'un escholier. To get credit, win reputation, by a Scholler. Prendre iour pour faire. To assigne, appoint, or set downe a day for the doing of. Prendre langue. To gaine, or search for, intelligence; to inquire, or learne, how the world goeth. Prendre langue entr'eux. To commune, or conferre together. Prendre lettres. Is (at a certaine Card-play) to aske leaue to giue ouer an vndertaken game. Prendre le lievre au Tabourin. See Lievre. Prendre les lions par les jubes. To act great matters, and greatly hazard himselfe in th' acting. Prendre la Lune à belles dents. To performe impossibilities. Prendre la main. Looke Main. Prendre Mars pour Marthe; And, prendre Martin pour regnard. To mistake (things that are somewhat alike) one for another. Prendre du pain benist de S. Cy. To swill vp store of liquor; & sometimes (more generally) to drink wine. Prendre Paris pour Corbeil. Foolishly to mistake most vnlike things, one for another; or greedily to take (in seeming to mistake) a greater for a lesse, thing. Prendre parti. To deliberate, pause, aduise, or bethink himselfe, of. Prendre à partie. To sue, implead, or call in question; to bend, set, or expose himselfe against. Prendre à ses perils. Ie le prens à mes perils. At my perill be it; if it succeed not well I am content to beare the blame, or feele the smart, of it.