Noun: prest
| Singular | prest |
| Plural | prests |
Sample Sentences
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Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks. [1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:]
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the same tayles soe hereafter there to be levyed and striken, shalbe delyvered unto everye of the same Sheriffes[…]without prest or other chardge to be sett upon them for the same. [1548, King Edward VI, Act 2:]
Nouns inflected like prest
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English prest, from Old French prest, deverbal from prester. See: Middle English Nouns '
prest'.
Verbs referencing "prest"
French Nouns
prêt.