Prefoliation (n.) Vernation.
Preform (v. t.) To form beforehand, or for special ends.
Preformation (n.) An old theory of the preexistence of germs. Cf. Embo/tement.
Preformative (n.) A formative letter at the beginning of a word.
Prefrontal (a.) Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.
Prefrontal (n.) A prefrontal bone or scale.
Prefulgency (n.) Superior brightness or effulgency.
Pregage (v. t.) To preengage.
Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Pregnable (a.) Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort.
Pregnance (n.) Pregnancy.
Pregnancy (n.) The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.
Pregnancy (n.) Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility.
Pregnant (a.) Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
Pregnant (a.) Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
Pregnant (a.) Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth.
Pregnant (n.) A pregnant woman.
Pregnant (a.) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
Pregnantly (adv.) In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.
Pregnantly (adv.) Unresistingly; openly; hence, clearly; evidently.
Pregravate (v. t.) To bear down; to depress.
Pregravitate (v. i.) To descend by gravity; to sink.
Pregustant (a.) Tasting beforehand; having a foretaste.
Pregustation (n.) The act of tasting beforehand; foretaste.
Prehallux (n.) An extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the preaxial side of the hallux.
Prehend (v. t.) To lay hold of; to seize.
Prehensi-ble (a.) Capable of being seized.
Prehensile (n.) Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
Prehension (n.) The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.
Prehensory (a.) Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile.
Prehistoric (a.) Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
Prehnite (n.) A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
Prehnitic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a tetrabasic acid of benzene obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- probably so called from the resemblance of the wartlike crystals to the mammillae on the surface of prehnite.
Preindesignate (a.) Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate.
Preindispose (v. t.) To render indisposed beforehand.
Preinstructed (imp. & p. p.) of Preinstruct
Preinstructing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preinstruct
Preinstruct (v. t.) To instruct previously or beforehand.
Preintimation (n.) Previous intimation; a suggestion beforehand.
Prejudged (imp. & p. p.) of Prejudge
Prejudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prejudge
Prejudge (v. t.) To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand.
Prejudgment (n.) The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.
Prejudicacy (n.) Prejudice; prepossession.
Prejudical (a.) Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided; as, a prejudical inquiry or action at law.
Prejudicant (a.) Influenced by prejudice; biased.
Prejudicate (a.) Formed before due examination.
Prejudicate (a.) Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced.
Prejudicated (imp. & p. p.) of Prejudicate
Prejudicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prejudicate
Prejudicate (v. t.) To determine beforehand, especially to disadvantage; to prejudge.
Prejudicate (v. i.) To prejudge.
Prejudicately (adv.) With prejudice.
Prejudication (n.) The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment.
Prejudication (n.) A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute.
Prejudication (n.) A previous treatment and decision of a point; a precedent.
Prejudicative (a.) Forming a judgment without due examination; prejudging.
Prejudice (n.) Foresight.
Prejudice (n.) An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.
Prejudice (n.) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.
Prejudice (n.) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
Prejudiced (imp. & p. p.) of Prejudice
Prejudicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prejudice
Prejudice (n.) To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.
Prejudice (n.) To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.
Prejudicial (a.) Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye.
Prejudicial (a.) Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental.
Preknowledge (n.) Prior knowledge.
Prelacies (pl. ) of Prelacy
Prelacy (n.) The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates.
Prelacy (n.) The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries.
Prelal (a.) Of or pertaining to printing; typographical.
Prelate (n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
Prelate (v. i.) To act as a prelate.
Prelateity (n.) Prelacy.
Prelateship (n.) The office of a prelate.
Prelatess (n.) A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate.
Prelatial (a.) Prelatical.
Prelatic (a.) Alt. of Prelatical
Prelatical (a.) Of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatical authority.
Prelatically (adv.) In a prelatical manner; with reference to prelates.
Prelation (n.) The setting of one above another; preference.
Prelatism (n.) Prelacy; episcopacy.
Prelatist (n.) One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman.
Prelatized (imp. & p. p.) of Prelatize
Prelatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prelatize
Prelatize (v. t.) To bring under the influence of prelacy.
Prelatize (v. i.) To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.
Prelatry (n.) Prelaty; prelacy.
Prelature (n.) Alt. of Prelatureship
Prelatureship (n.) The state or dignity of a prelate; prelacy.
Prelaty (n.) Prelacy.
Prelected (imp. & p. p.) of Prelect
Prelecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prelect
Prelect (v. t.) To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.
Prelect (v. i.) To discourse publicly; to lecture.
Prelection (n.) A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.
Prelector (n.) A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer.
Prelibation (n.) A tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.
Prelibation (n.) A pouring out, or libation, before tasting.