Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 106
Praseolite (n.) (Min.) A variety of altered iolite of a green color and greasy luster.
Prasinous (a.) Grass-green; clear, lively green, without any mixture. -- Lindley.
Prasoid (a.) (Min.) Resembling prase.
Prated (imp. & p. p.) of Prate.
Prating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prate.
Prate (v. i.) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
To prate and talk for life and honor. -- Shak.
And make a fool presume to prate of love. -- Dryden.
Prate (v. t.) To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate ! -- Dryden.
Prate (n.) Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. -- Pope.
Prate (n.) Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music].
Prate (v.) Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble].
Prateful (a.) Talkative. [R.] -- W. Taylor.
Prater (n.) One who prates. -- Shak.
Prater (n.) An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker [syn: chatterer, babbler, prater, chatterbox, magpie, spouter].
Pratic (n.) See Pratique.
Pratincole (n.) (Zool.) Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidae, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.
Pratincole (n.) Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers [syn: pratincole, glareole].
Pratingly (adv.) With idle talk; with loquacity.
Pratique (n.) (Com.) Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.
Pratique (n.) Practice; habits. [Obs.] "One of English education and pratique." -- R. North.
Prattled (imp. & p. p.) of Prattle.
Prattling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prattle.
Prattle (v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
Prattle (v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason. -- Addison.
Prattle (n.) Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.
Mere prattle, without practice. -- Shak.
Prattle (n.) Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music].
Prattle (v.) Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble].
Prattlement (n.) Prattle. [R.] -- Jeffrey.
Prattler (n.) One who prattles. -- Herbert.
Prattler (n.) Someone who speaks in a childish way.
Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature. "The pravity of the will." -- South.
Prawn (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus.
Note: The name is often applied to any large shrimp.
Prawn (n.) Any of various edible decapod crustaceans [syn: prawn, shrimp].
Prawn (n.) Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible.
Prawn (v.) Fish for prawns.
Praxinoscope (n.) (Opt.) An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.
Praxis (n.) Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object. "The praxis and theory of music." -- Wood.
Praxis (n.) An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
Praxis (n.) Translating an idea into action; "a hard theory to put into practice"; "differences between theory and praxis of communism" [syn: practice, praxis].
Pray (n. & v.) See Pry. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Prayed (imp. & p. p.) of Pray.
Praying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pray.
Pray (v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
And to his goddess pitously he preyde. -- Chaucer.
When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. -- Matt. vi. 6.
I pray, or (by ellipsis) Pray, I beg; I request; I entreat you; -- used in asking a question, making a request, introducing a petition, etc.; as, Pray, allow me to go.
I pray, sir. why am I beaten? -- Shak.
Syn: To entreat; supplicate; beg; implore; invoke; beseech; petition.
Pray (v. t.) To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
And as this earl was preyed, so did he. -- Chaucer.
We pray you . . . by ye reconciled to God. -- 2 Cor. v. 20.
Pray (v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
I know not how to pray your patience. -- Shak.
Pray (v. t.) To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory. -- Milman.
To pray in aid. (Law) (a) To call in as a helper one who has an interest in the cause. -- Bacon.
To pray in aid. (Law) (b) A phrase often used to signify claiming the benefit of an argument. See under Aid. -- Mozley & W.
Pray (v.) Address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer; "pray to the Lord".
Pray (v.) Call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!" [syn: beg, implore, pray].
Prayer (n.) One who prays; a supplicant.
Prayer (n.) The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body. "Their meek preyere." -- Chaucer
Prayer (n.) The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer.
As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer. -- Shak.
Prayer (n.) The form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers.
He made those excellent prayers which were published immediately after his death. -- Bp. Fell.
Prayer book, A book containing devotional prayers.
Prayer meeting, A meeting or gathering for prayer to God.
Syn: Petition; orison; supplication; entreaty; suit.
Prayer (n.) The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving); "the priest sank to his knees in prayer" [syn: prayer, supplication].
Prayer (n.) Reverent petition to a deity [syn: prayer, petition, orison].
Prayer (n.) Earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm" [syn: entreaty, prayer, appeal].
Prayer (n.) A fixed text used in praying.
Prayer (n.) Someone who prays to God [syn: prayer, supplicant].
Prayer, () Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him.
Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or formal. It is a "beseeching the Lord" (Ex. 32:11); "pouring out the soul before the Lord" (1 Sam. 1:15); "praying and crying to heaven" (2 Chr. 32:20); "seeking unto God and making supplication" (Job 8:5); "drawing near to God" (Ps. 73:28); "bowing the knees" (Eph. 3:14).
Prayer presupposes a belief in the personality of God, His ability and willingness to hold intercourse with us, his personal control of all things and of all his creatures and all their actions.
Acceptable prayer must be sincere (Heb. 10:22), Offered with reverence and godly fear, with a humble sense of our own insignificance as creatures and of our own unworthiness as sinners, with earnest importunity, and with unhesitating submission to the divine will. Prayer must also be offered in the faith that God is, and is the hearer and answerer of prayer, and that he will fulfil his word, "Ask, and ye shall receive" (Matt. 7:7, 8; 21:22; Mark 11:24; John 14:13, 14), and in the name of Christ (16:23, 24; 15:16; Eph. 2:18; 5:20; Col. 3:17; 1 Pet. 2:5).
Prayer is of different kinds, secret (Matt. 6:6); Social, as family prayers, and in social worship; and public, in the service of the sanctuary.
Intercessory prayer is enjoined (Num. 6:23; Job 42:8; Isa. 62:6; Ps. 122:6; 1 Tim. 2:1; James 5:14), and there are many instances on record of answers having been given to such prayers, e.g., of Abraham (Gen. 17:18, 20; 18:23-32; 20:7, 17, 18), of Moses for Pharaoh (Ex. 8:12, 13, 30, 31; Ex. 9:33), for the Israelites (Ex. 17:11, 13; 32:11-14, 31-34; Num. 21:7, 8; Deut. 9:18, 19, 25), for Miriam (Num. 12:13), for Aaron (Deut. 9:20), of Samuel (1 Sam. 7:5-12), of Solomon (1 Kings 8; 2 Chr. 6), Elijah (1 Kings 17:20-23), Elisha (2 Kings 4:33-36), Isaiah (2 Kings 19), Jeremiah (42:2-10), Peter (Acts 9:40), the church (12:5-12), Paul (28:8).
No rules are anywhere in Scripture laid down for the manner of prayer or the attitude to be assumed by the suppliant. There is mention made of kneeling in prayer (1 Kings 8:54; 2 Chr. 6:13; Ps. 95:6; Isa. 45:23; Luke 22:41; Acts 7:60; 9:40; Eph. 3:14, etc.); of bowing and falling prostrate (Gen. 24:26, 52; Ex. 4:31; 12:27; Matt. 26:39; Mark 14:35, etc.); of spreading out the hands (1 Kings 8:22, 38, 54; Ps. 28:2; 63:4; 88:9; 1 Tim. 2:8, etc.); and of standing (1 Sam. 1:26; 1 Kings 8:14, 55; 2 Chr. 20:9; Mark 11:25; Luke 18:11, 13).
If we except the "Lord's Prayer" (Matt. 6:9-13), which is, however, rather a model or pattern of prayer than a set prayer to be offered up, we have no special form of prayer for general use given us in Scripture.
Prayer is frequently enjoined in Scripture (Ex. 22:23, 27; 1 Kings 3:5; 2 Chr. 7:14; Ps. 37:4; Isa. 55:6; Joel 2:32; Ezek. 36:37, etc.), and we have very many testimonies that it has been answered (Ps. 3:4; 4:1; 6:8; 18:6; 28:6; 30:2; 34:4; 118:5; James 5:16-18, etc.).
"Abraham's servant prayed to God, and God directed him to the person who should be wife to his master's son and heir (Gen. 24:10-20).
"Jacob prayed to God, and God inclined the heart of his irritated brother, so that they met in peace and friendship (Gen. 32:24-30; 33:1-4).
"Samson prayed to God, and God showed him a well where he quenched his burning thirst, and so lived to judge Israel (Judg. 15:18-20).
"David prayed, and God defeated the counsel of Ahithophel (2 Sam. 15:31; 16:20-23; 17:14-23).
"Daniel prayed, and God enabled him both to tell Nebuchadnezzar his dream and to give the interpretation of it (Dan. 2: 16-23).
"Nehemiah prayed, and God inclined the heart of the king of Persia to grant him leave of absence to visit and rebuild Jerusalem (Neh. 1:11; 2:1-6).
"Esther and Mordecai prayed, and God defeated the purpose of Haman, and saved the Jews from destruction (Esther 4:15-17; 6:7, 8).
"The believers in Jerusalem prayed, and God opened the prison doors and set Peter at liberty, when Herod had resolved upon his death (Acts 12:1-12).
"Paul prayed that the thorn in the flesh might be removed, and his prayer brought a large increase of spiritual strength, while the thorn perhaps remained (2 Cor. 12:7-10).
"Prayer is like the dove that Noah sent forth, which blessed him not only when it returned with an olive-leaf in its mouth, but when it never returned at all.", Robinson's Job.
Prayer, () chanc. pleadings. That part of a bill which asks for relief.
Prayer, () The skill of the solicitor is to be exercised in framing this part of the bill. An accurate specification of the matters to be decreed in complicated cases, requires great discernment and experience; Coop. Eq. Pl. 13; it is varied as the case is made out, concluding always with a prayer of general relief, at the discretion of the court. Mitf. Pl. 45.
Prayerful (a.) Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional. "The prayerful man." -- J. S. Blackie. -- Prayer"ful*ly, adv. -- Prayer"ful*ness, n.
Prayerful (a.) Disposed to pray or appearing to pray.
Prayerless (a.) Not using prayer; habitually neglecting prayer to God; without prayer. "The next time you go prayerless to bed." -- Baxter. -- Prayer"less*ly, adv. -- Prayer"less*ness, n.
Praying () a. & n. from Pray, v.
Prayingly (adv.) With supplication to God.
Pre- () A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; preeminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent.
Preaccusation (n.) Previous accusation.
Preace (v. & n.) Press.
Preached (imp. & p. p.) of Preach.
Preaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preach.
Preach (v. i.) . 講道；說教 [（+to/ about）]；鼓吹，宣揚；嘮叨地勸誡 [（+to/ at/ about）] To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.
How shall they preach, except they be sent? -- Rom. x. 15.
From that time Jesus began to preach. -- Matt. iv. 17.
Preach (v. i.) To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.
Preach (v. t.) 【宗】布道；講（道）[+that]；鼓吹；反覆灌輸 To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
That Cristes gospel truly wolde preche. -- Chaucer.
The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. -- Isa. lxi. 1.
Preach (v. t.) To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching. "I have preached righteousness in the great congregation." -- Ps. xl. 9.
Preach (v. t.) To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.
Preach (v. t.) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching. [R.] "As ye are preached." -- Southey.
Preach (v. t.) To advise or recommend earnestly.
My master preaches patience to him. -- Shak.
{To preach down}, To oppress, or humiliate by preaching. -- Tennyson.
{To preach up}, To exalt by preaching; to preach in support of; as, to preach up equality.
Preach (n.) A religious discourse. [Obs.] -- Hooker.
Preach (v.) Deliver a sermon; "The minister is not preaching this Sunday" [syn: {preach}, {prophesy}].
Preach (v.) Speak, plead, or argue in favor of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house" [syn: {preach}, {advocate}].
Preacher (n.) [C] 傳教士，牧師；說教者；鼓吹者；宣傳者 One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.
How shall they hear without a preacher? -- Rom. x. 14.
Preacher (n.) One who inculcates anything with earnestness.
No preacher is listened to but Time. -- Swift.
{Preacher bird} (Zool.), A toucan.
Preacher (n.) Someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel [syn: {preacher}, {preacher man}, {sermonizer}, {sermoniser}].
Preacher (n.) [ C ] 傳道士，牧師 A person, usually a priest or minister, who gives a religious speech.
Preachership (n.) The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." -- Macaulay.
Preachify (v. i.) 【口】說教 To discourse in the manner of a preacher. [Colloq.] -- Thackeray.
Preachify (v.) Speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements; "This man always sermonizes" [syn: {sermonize}, {sermonise}, {preachify}, {moralize}, {moralise}].
Preaching (n.) The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice. -- Milner.
{Preaching cross}, A cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate a preaching place.
{Preaching friars}. See {Dominican}.
Preaching (n.) 講道；preach的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 An address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) [syn: {sermon}, {discourse}, {preaching}].
Preaching (n.) A moralistic rebuke; "your preaching is wasted on him" [syn: {sermon}, {preaching}].
Preachmen (n. pl. ) of Preachman
Preachman (n.) [C] 傳教士，牧師；說教者；鼓吹者；宣傳者 A preacher; -- so called in contempt. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Preachment (n.) 講道；長篇大道理 A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. -- Shak.
Preachment (n.) A sermon on a moral or religious topic [syn: homily, preachment].
Preacquaint (v. t.) 預先通知，預告 To acquaint previously or beforehand. -- Fielding.
Preacquaintance (n.) Previous acquaintance or knowledge. -- Harris.
Preact (v. t.) To act beforehand; to perform previously.
Preaction (n.) Previous action.
Preadamic (a.) Prior to Adam.
Preadamite (n.) An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.
Preadamite (n.) One who holds that men existed before Adam.
Pre-adamite, (n.) One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race that antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily conceived. Melsius believed them to have inhabited "the Void" and to have been something intermediate between fishes and birds. Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
Preadamitic (a.) Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods.
Preadjustment (n.) Previous adjustment.
Preadministration (n.) Previous administration. -- Bp. Pearson.
Preadmonish (v. t.) To admonish previously.
Preadmonition (n.) Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.
Preadvertise (v. t.) To advertise beforehand; to preannounce publicly.
Preamble (n.) 序文；前言；電報報頭；先兆；前奏 A introductory portion; an introduction or preface, as to a book, document, etc.; specifically, the introductory part of a statute, which states the reasons and intent of the law.
Preamble (v. t. & i.) To make a preamble to; to preface; to serve as a preamble. [R.] -- Feltham. Milton.
Preamble (n.) A preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose).
Preamble (v.) Make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document.
Preamble. () A preface, an introduction or explanation of what is to follow: that clause at the head of acts of congress or other legislatures which explains the reasons why the act is made. Preambles are also frequently put in contracts to, explain the motives of the contracting parties,
Preamble. () A preamble is said to be the key of a statute, to open the minds of the makers as to the mischiefs which are to be remedied, and the objects which are to be accomplished by the provisions of the statutes. It cannot amount, by implication, to enlarge what is expressly given. 1 Story on Const. B 3, c. 6. How far a preamble is to be considered evidence of the facts it recites, see 4 M. & S. 532; 1 Phil. Ev. 239; 2 Russ. on Cr. 720; and see, generally, Ersk. L. of Scotl. 1, 1, 18; Toull. liv. 3, n. 318; 2 Supp. to Ves. jr. 239; 4 L. R. 55; Barr. on the Stat. 353, 370.
Preambulary (a.) Of or pertaining to a preamble; introductory; contained or provided for in a preamble. "A preambulary tax." [R.] -- Burke.
Preambulate (v. i.) To walk before. [R.] -- Jordan.
Preambulation (n.) A walking or going before; precedence. [R.]
Preambulation (n.) A preamble. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Preambulatory (a.) Preceding; going before; introductory. [R.]
Simon Magus had preambulatory impieties. -- Jer. Taylor.
Preambulous (n.) See Perambulatory. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Preannounce (v. t.) To announce beforehand. -- Coleridge.
Preantenultimate (a.) Being or indicating the fourth syllable from the end of a word, or that before the antepenult.
Preaortic (a.) (Anat.) In front, or on the ventral side, of the aorta.
Preappoint (v. t.) To appoint previously, or beforehand. -- Carlyle.
Preappointment (n.) Previous appointment.
Preapprehension (n.) An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Prearm (v. t.) To forearm. [R.]
Prearrange (v. t.) To arrange beforehand. [Also spelled pre-arrange.]
Prearrange (v.) Arrange beforehand.
Prease (v. t. & i.) To press; to crowd. [Obs.] -- n. A press; a crowd. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Prease (n.) A press; a crowd.
Preassurance (n.) Previous assurance. -- Coleridge.
Preataxic (a.) (Med.) Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
Preaudience (n.) (Eng. Law) Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers. -- Blackstone.
Preaxial (a.) (Anat.) 【解】身體前方的；臀部或腿內側的；軸前的 Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.
Prebend (n.) A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.
Prebend (n.) A prebendary. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Dignitary prebend, One having jurisdiction annexed to it.
Simple prebend, One without jurisdiction.
Prebend (n.) The stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon.