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Definition of Prease
1. v. t. & i. To press; to crowd.
Definition of Prease
1. Noun. (obsolete form of press) (defdate 14th-17th c.) ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete form of press) (defdate 14th-17th c.) ¹
3. Verb. (obsolete form of praise) (defdate 16th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prease
1. to press [v PREASED, PREASING, PREASES] - See also: press
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prease
Literary usage of Prease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"To see if Skelton will put himself in prease Among the thickest of all the whole
route, Make noise enough, ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"In case she be constrained to abide In prease of company. ... To prease, v.
To press. No humble suitors prease to speak for right. 3 Hen. Г I, iii, 1. ..."
3. A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages (1869)
"Delit de la prease. Fr.—"A trial for libel." Belle ingiurie il remedio e lo
scordarsi. Ital. prov.—" To forget a wrong is the best revenge. ..."
4. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"... which I prevented from swarming, yet with no in- prease from them. I obtained
only 1655 Ibs. of honey, or on an average about 56 Ibs. to each. ..."
5. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"4& Palsgrave has, 'I prease in to a place by ... you be nat ashamed to prease in
to the kynges chaumber on this ..."
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