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 Presché: m. ée: f. Preached; also, preached vnto, instructed, exhorted.  I'y ay presché sept ans pour vn caresme. I know it well, or I am well knowne there.  Il est tout presché qui n'a cure de bien faire: Pro. He's told ynough that meanes not to doe well; or, too much he's preached to that cares not to be saued.

Preschement: m. A preaching; instructing; exhorting, persuading.

Prescher. To preach; to teach, instruct; exhort, persuade.  Le regnard presche aux poules. Wee say, the Fox preaches, beware your Geese.

Prescheur: m. A Preacher.  De Prescheur qui se recommande en tout temps bon heur nous defende: Prov. From Preachers who themselues commend, God, and good fortune vs defend.

Prescience: f. A prescience, or foreknowledge.

Prescript: m. ipte: f. Prescribed; limited, ordained, appointed; also, out of date, or so old, as it can hardly be renewed; whence;  Vn procez peri, & prescript. A suit which hath lien so long in the decke, or hung so long by the wall, as it is growne past following.

Prescription: f. A prescription; a long possession, or continuance in possession; the course or vse of a thing for a long time; also, a limitation, appointment, rule, or law.

Prescrire. To prescribe; to limit; assigne; appoint; ordaine.  Les procez par escrit receus en la Cour ne se prescrivent point. May at any time be reuiued, are neuer out of date, or outworne.

Preseance: f. Precedence, or precedencie; a first, or former place, ranke, seat; a sitting, or going, before others.

Presence: f. Presence; th' aspect, sight, or countenance.  En la presence de. Before, before the face, or eyes; in the verie eye of; he himselfe, &c, being by.  Droict de presence. Looke vnder Droict. Present: m. A present, gift, offer.

Present: m. ente: f. Present; readie; in sight, in view; at hand, hard by; in presence, in his owne person.  À tous presents, & à venir. To all that are and shall be; to all aliue and like to be.  Par ces presentes. By these presents, or present letters; Par la presente. By th' instant.  Par le present. Now, for this time, at this season.

Presentation: f. A presentation; a presenting, shewing, representing, setting forth.  Les presentations. Th' introductions, or inrollments of bills, or of acts, in a Court, before pleading.  La presentation nostre Dame. A holy-day kept by the Church of Rome on the 21 of Nouember.

Presenté: m. ée: f. Presented, represented; shewed, offered vnto view; also, offered.

Presentement. Presently, quickly, anon, at an instant, at hand, readily, speedily, suddenly.

Presenter. To present; represent; shew, bring into presence, offer vnto view; also, to offer.  Il craint ce coup de telle façon qu'il ne s'y presente pas. He neuer offers to stop it, or make a stroake at it.

Presentiment: m. A prouidence, or fore-feeling; a perceiuing, or vnderstanding of a thing beforehand.

Preservatif: m. A preseruatiue, defensiue; counterpoyson, antidote.

Preservatif: m. iue: f. Preseruatiue, preseruing. Preservé: m. ée: f. Preserued, saued, kept, shielded, defended.

Preserver. To preserue, saue, keepe; defend, shield.

Presidence: f. A Presidencie; the place, or Office of a President.

President: m. A President; a Iudge in a Court of Parliament, or high Court.  Le Premier President. The Lord chiefe Iustice of one of those Courts.

Presider. To preside; gouerne, rule, sway, commaund ouer, sit in iudgement on.

Presidial: m. ale: f. Presidiall; belonging to a President, or to a Presidiall Court.  Sieges presidiaux. Seats, or Courts of Iustice (established about the yeare 1551 in diuers good townes of France) wherein ciuile causes (not exceeding 250 l. Tour. in money, or 10 l. Tour. in rent) are heard, and adiudged, Soueraignly, and without Appeales, or by prouision notwithstanding Appeales.

Presidialement. Presidially; within presidiall Iurisdiction, or compasse.

Presidialité: f. The Iurisdiction of a Presidiall Court.

Presidiaux: m. The Offices of a Presidiall Seat, or Court.

Presignifié: m. ée: f. Foreshewed, foretold, signified beforehand.

Presle. as Prele. Presme: m. A neere, or next, kinsman by father and mother, or in a direct line.

Presme d'Esmeraude. A base, or course Emerauld; whereof there be diuers kinds, some transparent, as the greene Iasper; others of a thicke, or troubled mallow colour.

Presmesse: f. Neere kindred, the being next of kinne; or the priuiledge of recouerie, or disingaging of land, due vnto the next kinsman.

Presomptif: m. iue: f. Likelie, coniecturall; also, presumptuous.

Presomption: f. Presumption, saucinesse, malapertneße, ouer-boldnesse; also, a presumption, suspition, guesse, coniecture, fore-conceit.  Presomptions de droict. Presumptions of right; or (as the Latine) preiudicia iuris. Presomptuëux: m. euse: f. Presumptuous; presuming; saucie, malapert, ouer-bold.

Pres-prenant. Crediteur pr. An hard, or strict creditor; one that will be satisfied to th' vtmost.

Presque. Welnigh, welneere, almost, in a manner; and (with a Negatiue) scarce, hardly.

Pressant: m. ante: f. Pressing, inforcing, earnest, vrgent; importunate, vnmannerlie, vnreasonable.

Presse: f. A prease, throng, or crowd of people; also, a Presse to Print, or presse things in; also, a kind of greenish, and hard Peach thats long in ripening, and whose pulpe (in some places of a ruddie colour) cleaues hard vnto the stone.  Vin de grain est plus doux que n'est pas vin de presse: Prov. Willing dueties are more gracious then such as be extorted.

Pressé: m. ée: f. Pressed; squeezed, crowded, thrust hard, or close together; strained, vrged; inforced, constrained; importuned, hard laied to.  Pressé de son honneur. That must vntrusse, that must immediately goe to it.  C'est trop pressé. That is too great extremitie.

Presseance: f. Precedence, or precedencie.

Pressement: m. A pressing; squeezing, thrusting close together; a straining, vrging, inforcing; an importuning.