Pres vs Prest - What's the difference?
pres | prest |
President (used as a title written before a president's name )
(legal)
(legal)
(archaic) (press)
* {{quote-book
, author =
, title =
, year = 1850
, page = 80
, passage = And when loftier mansions prest /Lure of pleasure on their guest,
}}
(rare) A payment of wages in advance
A loan or advance (of money)
* Francis Bacon
A tax or duty
(obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment
(legal) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
(obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.
* R. of Gloucester
(obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.
In lang=en terms the difference between pres and prest
is that pres is abbreviation of lang=en while prest is a duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.As a verb prest is
past tense of press.As an adjective prest is
ready; prompt; prepared.pres
English
===(en)=== Pres' ''or'' ' Pres.Noun
Usage notes
This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in case citations. See, e.g.'', ''The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations", Table T6, p. 430-431. English case citation abbreviationsAnagrams
* * *prest
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
(etyl) prestNoun
(en noun)- Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.
- (Cowell)
Adjective
(en adjective)- All prest to such battle he was.
- (Tusser)
