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Precipice
- noun - a very steep cliff
Precisive
- - Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction.
Preconize
- - To approve by preconization.
Predicate
- noun - (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
Preengage
- - To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy.
Prefigure
- verb - imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured"
- indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
Pregnable
- - Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort.