Definition of Prestos

1. presto [n] - See also: presto

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prestos

prestimulated
prestimulation
prestimulations
prestimulus
presting
prestissimo
presto
presto change-o
presto chango
prestorage
prestore
prestored
prestores
prestoring
prestorm
prestos (current term)
prestrained
prestrategic
prestress
prestressed
prestressed concrete
prestresses
prestressing
prestretch
prestriction
prestrike
prestructure
prestructured
prestructures
prestructuring

Literary usage of Prestos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1856)
"(Signed) " AC BAIRD prestos." (On the back titled thus:—) " Note of Fun'Is." C.—No. 10 of process. " Note of Legacy's, No. 2. ..."

2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1808)
"... is in these prestos, and in men of religion, that haue forsaken ... as oure prestos done now, and touched thy body, ..."

3. English Schools at the Reformation 1546-8 by Arthur Francis Leach (1896)
"... and to praye For the Founders soules; that ys to seye, 2 of the same prestos to syng within the ..."

4. The Hengwrt Ms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1879)
"... [897] Sucho prestos bene the ... [900] Thes prestos as seith the booke ne comme not to the mysterie of ..."

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