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Precatory
- adjective - expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures"
Predating
- verb - be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
- come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"
Predation
- noun - an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
- the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
Predators
- noun - any animal that lives by preying on other animals
- someone who attacks in search of booty
Predatory
- adjective - characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
- living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
Prefatory
- adjective - serving as an introduction or preface
Prelatess
- - A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate.
Prelation
- - The setting of one above another; preference.