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Prehending
- verb - take hold of; grab; "The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals"
Prehensile
- adjective - adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"
- having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
Prehension
- noun - the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
Prejudging
- verb - judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence
Prelection
- - A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.
Premiering
- verb - be performed for the first time; "We premiered the opera of the young composer and it was a critical success"
- perform a work for the first time
Premissing
- verb - take something as preexisting and given
Prensation
- - The act of seizing with violence.
Prenuptial
- adjective - relating to events before a marriage; "prenuptial agreement"