Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 114
Prepubic (a.) 前恥骨的 Situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis; pertaining to the prepubis.
Prepubis (n.) 前恥骨 A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.
Prepuce (n.) The foreskin.
Prepuce (n.) A fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris [syn: prepuce, foreskin].
Prepuce (n.) A fold of skin covering the tip of the penis [syn: prepuce, foreskin].
Preputial (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prepuce. Preraphaelism
Preraphaelism (n.) Alt. of Preraphaelitism.
Preraphaelitism (n.) (Fine Arts) The doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.
Preraphaelite (a.) Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape. --Ruskin.
Preraphaelite (n.) One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
Preraphaelite (n.) Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be restorer of early ideas or methods, as one of the German painters often called Nazarenes, or one who paints and draws with extreme minuteness of detail.
Preregnant (n.) One who reigns before another; a sovereign predecessor. [R.] -- Warner.
Preremote (a.) More remote in previous time or prior order.
In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. -- E. Darwin.
Prerequire (v. t.) To require beforehand.
Some things are prerequired of us. -- Bp. Hall.
Prerequisite (a.) 不可缺的；事先需要的；必修的 Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
Prerequisite (n.) 首要事物；必要條件；前提 Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.
The necessary prerequisites of freedom. -- Goldsmith.
Prerequisite (a.) Required as a prior condition or course of study.
Prerequisite (n.) Something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission" [syn: prerequisite, requirement].
Preresolved (imp. & p. p.) of Preresolve.
Preresolving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preresolve.
Preresolve (v. t. & i.) To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. -- Sir E. Dering.
Prerogative (n.) 特權 [C] [S1]；（獨特的）優點 [C]；【古】領先；優先 An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.
The two faculties that are the prerogative of man -- the powers of abstraction and imagination. -- I. Taylor.
An unconstitutional exercise of his prerogative. -- Macaulay.
Prerogative (n.) Precedence; preeminence; first rank. [Obs.]
Then give me leave to have prerogative. -- Shak.
Note: The term came into general use in the conflicts between the Crown and Parliaments of Great Britain, especially in the time of the Stuarts.
Prerogative Court (Eng. Law), A court which formerly had authority in the matter of wills and administrations, where the deceased left bona notabilia, or effects of the value of five pounds, in two or more different dioceses. -- Blackstone.
Prerogative office, The office in which wills proved in the Prerogative Court were registered.
Syn: Privilege; right. See Privilege.
Prerogative (n.) A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" [syn: prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right].
Prerogative, () English law. The royal prerogative is an arbitrary power vested in the executive to do good and not evil. Rutherf. Inst. 279; Co. Litt. 90; Chit. on Prerog.; Bac. Ab. h.t.
Prerogative, () Civil law. The privilege, preeminence, or advantage which one person has over another; thus a person vested with an office, is entitled to all the rights, privileges, prerogatives, &c. which belong to it.
Prerogative, (n.) A sovereign's right to do wrong.
Prerogatived (a.) Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege. [R.] -- Shak.
Prerogatively (adv.) By prerogative.
Presage (n.) 預感，預兆，預知 Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." -- Milton.
Presage (n.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
If there be aught of presage in the mind. -- Milton.
Syn: Prognostic; omen; token; sign; presentiment.
Presaged (imp. & p. p.) of Presage.
Presaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Presage.
Presage (v. t.) 成為…的前兆，預示，預言 To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Presage (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. -- Shak.
Presage (v. i.) 預言 To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of. -- Dryden.
Presage (n.) A foreboding about what is about to happen.
Presage (n.) A sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [syn: {omen}, {portent}, {presage}, {prognostic}, {prognostication}, {prodigy}].
Presage (v.) Indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode}, {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast}, {predict}].
Presageful (a.) Full of presages; ominous.
Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. -- Tennyson.
Presagement (n.) The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Presagement (n.) That which is presaged, or foretold. [R.] "Ominous presagement before his end. " -- Sir H. Wotton.
Presager (n.) One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. -- Shak.
Presagious (a.) Foreboding; ominous. [Obs.]
Presbyope (n.) (Med.) One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.
Presbyope (n.) A person with presbyopia; someone who is farsighted resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the elasticity of the crystalline lens.
Presbyopia () (Med.) A defect of vision consequent upon advancing age. It is due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which produces difficulty of accommodation and recession of the near point of vision, so that objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use of convex glasses. Called also presbytia.
Presbyopia (n.) A reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 [syn: presbyopia, farsightedness].
Presbyopic (a.) Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.
Presbyopy (n.) See Presbyopia.
Presbyte (n.) Same as Presbyope.
Presbyter (n.) An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1.
Presbyter (n.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.
Presbyter (n.) A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.
Presbyter (n.) A Presbyterian.
Presbyteral (a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery; presbyterial.
Presbyterate (n.) A presbytery; also, presbytership.
Presbyteress (n.) A female presbyter.
Presbyterial (a.) Presbyterian.
Presbyterian (a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed.
Presbyterian (n.) One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.
Presbyterianism (n.) That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.
Presbyterium (n.) Same as Presbytery, 4.
Presbytership (n.) The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.
Presbyteries (n. pl. ) of Presbytery.
Presbytery (n.) A body of elders in the early Christian church.
Presbytery (n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.
Presbytery (n.) The Presbyterian religion of polity.
Presbytery (n.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest.
Presbytery (n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman.
Presbytia (n.) Presbyopia.
Presbytic (a.) Same as Presbyopic.
Presbytism (n.) Presbyopia.
Presscapula (n.) The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
Prescapular (a.) Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.
Prescience (n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Prescient (a.) 預知的；有先見的 Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand. -- Pope.
Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event. -- Bacon.
Prescient (a.) Perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations" -- R.H.Rovere.
Presciently (adv.) With prescience or foresight.
Prescind (v. t.) (v. t.) 個別地考慮；抽象地思索；使（思想等）不顧其他而專注（與from連用） (v. i.) 不加考慮；（注意力）移轉（與from連用） To cut off; to abstract. [Obs.] -- Norris.
Prescind (v. t.) (Metaph.) To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Presciendent (a.) Foreknowing; having foreknowledge; as, prescious of ills.
Prescribed (imp. & p. p.) of Prescribe.
Prescribing (p. pr & vb. n.) of Prescribe.
Prescribe (v. t.) To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.
Prescribe (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.
Prescribe (v. i.) To give directions; to dictate.
Prescribe (v. i.) To influence by long use.
Prescribe (v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.
Prescribe (v. i.) To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law.
Prescriber (n.) One who prescribes.
Prescript (a.) Directed; prescribed.
Prescript (n.) Direction; precept; model prescribed.
Prescript (n.) A medical prescription.
Prescriptibility (n.) The quality or state of being prescriptible. -- Story.
Prescriptible (a.) Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper to be prescribed. -- Grafton.
Prescriptible. () That which is subject to prescription.
Prescription (n.) The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
Prescription (n.) (Med.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy. Hence: a written order from a physician for a medication, which allows a patient to legally obtain medication which is required by law to be dispensed only on authorization from a physician or other qualified medical practitioner.
Prescription (n.) (Law) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law. -- Bacon.
That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic of Englishmen. -- Macaulay.
Note: Prescription differs from custom, which is a local usage, while prescription is personal, annexed to the person only. Prescription only extends to incorporeal rights, such as a right of way, or of common. What the law gives of common rights is not the subject of prescription. -- Blackstone. -- Cruise. --Kent. In Scotch law, prescription is employed in the sense in which limitation is used in England and America, namely, to express that operation of the lapse of time by which obligations are extinguished or title protected. -- Sir T. Craig. -- Erskine.
Compare: Usucaption
Usucaption (n.) (Roman Law) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.
Prescription (a.) Available only with a doctor's written prescription; "a prescription drug" [ant: nonprescription(a), over-the-counter(a)].
Prescription (n.) Directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her prescription for success."
Prescription (n.) A drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly" [syn: prescription drug, prescription, prescription medicine, ethical drug] [ant: over-the-counter drug, over-the-counter medicine].
Prescription (n.) Written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person.
Prescription (n.) Written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient.
Prescription. () The manner of acquiring property by a long, honest, and uninterrupted possession or use during the time required by law. The possession must have been possessio longa, continua, et pacifica, nec sit ligitima interruptio, long, continued, peaceable, and without lawful interruption. Domat, Loix Civ. liv. 3, t. 29, s. 1; Bract. 52, 222, 226; Co. Litt. 113, b; Pour pouvoir prescire, says the Code Civil, 1. 3, t. 20, art. 22, 29, il faut une possession continue et non interrompue, paisible, publique, et a titre de proprietaire. See Knapp's R. 79.
Prescription. () The law presumes a grant before the time of legal memory when the party claiming by prescription, or those from whom he holds, have had adverse or uninterrupted possession of the property or rights claimed by prescription. This presumption may be a mere fiction, the commencement of the user being tortious; no prescription can, however, be sustained, which is not consistent with such a presumption.
Prescription. () Twenty years uninterrupted user of a way is prima facie evidence of a prescriptive right. 1 Saund. 323, a; 10 East, 476; 2 Br. & Bing. 403; Cowp. 215; 2 Wils. 53. The subject of prescription are the several kinds of incorporeal rights. Vide, generally, 2 Chit. Bl. 35, n. 24; Amer. Jurist, No. 37, p. 96; 17 Vin. Ab. 256; 7 com. Dig. 93; Rutherf. Inst. 63; Co. Litt. 113; 2 Conn. R. 584; 9 conn. R. 162; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Prescription. () The Civil Code Louisiana, art. 3420, defines a prescription to be a manner of acquiring property, or of discharging debts, by the effect of time, and under the conditions regulated by law. For the law relating to prescription in that state, see Code, art. 8420 to 3521. For the difference between the meaning of the term prescription as understood by the common law, and the same term in the civil law, see 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 246.
Prescription. () The prescription which has the effect to liberate a creditor, is a mere bar which the debtor may oppose to the creditor, who has neglected to exercise his rights, or procured them to be acknowledged during the time prescribed by law. The debtor acquires this right without any act on his part, it results entirely from the negligence of the creditor. The prescription does not extinguish the debt, it merely places a bar in the hands of the debtor, which he may use or not at his choice against the creditor. The debtor may therefore abandon this defence, which has been acquired by mere lapse of time, either by paying the debt, or acknowledging it. If he pay it, he cannot recover back the money so paid, and if he acknowledge it, he may be constrained to pay it. Poth. Intr. au titre xiv. des Prescriptions, Bect. 2. Vide Bouv. Inst. Theo. pars prima, c. 1, art. 1, Sec. 4, s. 3; Limitations.
Prescription (n.) A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Prescriptive (a.) (Law) 規定的；【律】因時效而獲得的 Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.
The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive. -- J. M. Mason.
Prescriptive (a.) Of or pertaining to the doctrine that acceptable grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority, rather than be determined by common usage.
Prescriptive (a.) Pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" [syn: prescriptive, normative] [ant: descriptive].
Prescriptively (adv.) By prescription.
Prescuta (n. pl. ) of Prescutum.
Prescutum (n.) The first of the four pieces composing the dorsal part, or tergum, of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is usually small and inconspicuous.
Preseance (n.) Priority of place in sitting.
Preselect (v. t.) To select beforehand.
Presence (n.) [U] 出席，在場；存在；面前，眼前；風采；風度；（感到在面前的）精靈，鬼怪 The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.
Presence (n.) The place in which one is present; the part of space within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the intervention of anything that forbids intercourse.
Presence (n.) Specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber.
Presence (n.) The whole of the personal qualities of an individual; person; personality; especially, the person of a superior, as a sovereign.
Presence (n.) An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility; noble company.
Presence (n.) Port, mien; air; personal appearence.
Presence (n.) (B2) [ S ] 出席，在場；（事物的）存在，出現 The fact that someone or something is in a place.
// She was overawed by the presence of so many people.
// The presence of pollen in the atmosphere causes hay fever in some people.
// He's usually quite polite in my presence.
// The document was signed in the presence of two witnesses.
Presence (n.) (C2) [ C usually singular ] 冥冥中有人的存在感 A feeling that someone is still in a place although they are not there or are dead.
// His daughter's presence seemed to fill her empty bedroom.
Presence (n.) (C2) [ S ] （觀察控制形勢的）一隊員警（或部隊） A group of police or soldiers who are watching or controlling a situation.
// The United Nations has maintained a presence in the region for some time.
// There was a strong police presence at the demonstration.
Presence (n.) (C2) [ U ] (Approving) 儀態，風度；氣質 A quality that makes people notice or admire you, even when you are not speaking.
// Stage presence.
// He stood there in the corner of the room, a dark, brooding (= worrying) presence.
Idiom:
Make your presence felt (C2) 突顯自己；（對人群或局勢）發揮作用 To have a strong effect on other people or on a situation.
// The new police chief has really made his presence felt.
Presensation (n.) Previous sensation, notion, or idea.
Presension (n.) Previous perception.
Present (a.) Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.
These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. -- John xiv. 25.
Present (a.) Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance.
I'll bring thee to the present business -- Shak.