Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PRE-AD-MIN-IS-TRA'TION – PRE-CA'RI-OUS-LY
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Previous administration. – Pearson.
PRE-AD-MON'ISH, v.t.
To admonish previously.
PRE-AD-MON'ISH-ED, pp.
Previously admonished.
PRE-AD-MON'ISH-ING, ppr.
Admonishing beforehand.
Previous warning or admonition.
PRE'AM-BLE, n. [It. preambolo; Sp. preambulo; Fr. préambule; L. præ, before, and ambulo, to go.]
- Something previous introduction to a discourse or writing.
- The introductory part of a statute, which states the reasons and intent of the law. – Encyc. Dryden.
PRE'AM-BLE, v.t.
To preface; to introduce with previous remarks. – Feltham.
PRE-AM'BLED, pp.
Introduced with previous remarks.
PRE-AM'BU-LA-RY, or PRE-AM'BU-LOUS, a.
Previous; introductory. [Not used.] – Brown.
PRE-AM'BU-LATE, v.i. [L. præ, before, and ambulo, to walk.]
To walk or go before. – Jordan.
- A preamble. [Not in use.] – Chaucer.
- A walking or going before.
Going before; preceding. – Taylor.
PRE-AP-POINT', v.t.
To appoint previously.
Previous appointment. – Tucker.
PRE-AP-PRE-HEN'SION, n. [See Apprehend.]
An opinion formed before examination. – Brown.
PREASE, a.
Press; crowd. [Not used. See Press.] – Chapman.
PREAS'ING, ppr. [or adj.]
Crowding. [Not used.] – Spenser.
PRE-AS-SUR'ANCE, n.
Previous assurance. – Coleridge.
PRE-AU'DI-ENCE, n. [See Audience.]
Precedence or rank at the bar among lawyers; right of previous audience. – Blackstone.
PREB'END, n. [It. prebenda, prebend, provision; Sp. prebenda; Fr. prebende, from L. præbeo, to afford, to allow.]
- The stipend or maintenance granted out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church. Prebends are simple or dignitary; simple, when they are restricted to the revenue only; and dignitary, when they have jurisdiction annexed to them. – Encyc.
- A prebendary. [Not in use.] – Bacon.
PREB'END-AL, a.
Pertaining to a prebend. – Chesterfield.
PREB'END-A-RY, n. [Fr. prebendier.]
An ecclesiastic who enjoys a prebend; the stipendiary of a cathedral church. Swift. A prebendary differs from a canon in this; the prebendary receives his prebend in consideration of his officiating in the church; the canon merely in consequence of his being received into the cathedral or college. – Encyc.
The office of a prebendary; a canonry. – Wotton.
PRE-CA'RI-OUS, a. [L. precarius, from precor, to pray or entreat; primarily, depending on request, or on the will of another.]
- Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another. A privilege depending on another's will is precarious, or held by a precarious tenure. – Addison.
- Uncertain; held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown or unforeseen causes or events. Temporal prosperity is precarious; personal advantages, health, strength and beauty, are all precarious, depending on a thousand accidents. – Rogers. We say also, the weather is precarious; a phrase in which we depart not more from the primary sense of the word, than we do in a large part of all the words in the language.
PRE-CA'RI-OUS-LY, adv.
At the will or pleasure of others; dependently; by an uncertain tenure; as, he subsists precariously. – Lesley. Pope.