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Preface
- noun - a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
- furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"
Prelate
- noun - a senior clergyman and dignitary
Prepare
- verb - arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
- create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
- educate for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior"
- lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord; "prepare the discord in bar 139"
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
- prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
- to prepare verbal
Presage
- noun - a foreboding about what is about to happen
- a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
- indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
Primage
- - A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain.
Primate
- noun - a senior clergyman and dignitary
- any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
Prisage
- - A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. Blackstone. (b) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
Private
- adjective - an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines; "our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"
- concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath"
- concerning things deeply private and personal; "private correspondence"; "private family matters"
- confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy; "a private place"; "private discussions"; "private lessons"; "a private club"; "a private secretary"; "private property"; "the former President is now a private citizen"; "public figures struggle to maintain a private life"
- not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts"
Probate
- noun - a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate
- Confirmation of a will
- establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents)
- put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence
- the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements