prest

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A payment of wages in advance rare
  2. A loan or advance (of money)
    — Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.
  3. A tax or duty
  4. A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment obsolete
  5. A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
    — the same tayles soe hereafter there to be levyed and striken, shalbe delyvered unto everye of the same Sheriffes[…]without prest or other chardge to be sett upon them for the same.
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of press archaic,form-of,participle,past
    — And when loftier mansions prest/Lure of pleasure on their guest
  2. To give as a loan; to lend. obsolete,transitive
    — a greate part of our armie already prested, and in our wages to go forward
形容词 adj.
  1. Ready; prompt; prepared. obsolete
  2. Neat; tidy; proper. obsolete
    — False knave ready prest, All safe is the best
  3. Quick, brisk. obsolete
    — The fauconer then was prest, Came runnynge with a dow, And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’ But she wold not bow.

词形变化

prests plural prests present,singular,third-person presting participle,present prested participle,past prested past more prest comparative most prest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
prest money

词源

词源 1
From Middle English prest, from Old French prest.
词源 2
From Middle English prest, borrowed from Old French prester, from Latin praesto, praestare.
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