Wikidiffcom vs Prest - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (press)
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(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.
As a verb prest is
(archaic) (press) or prest can be (obsolete|transitive) to give as a loan; to lend.As a noun prest is
(rare) a payment of wages in advance.As an adjective prest is
(obsolete) ready; prompt; prepared.wikidiffcom
Not English
Wikidiffcom has no English definition. It may be misspelled.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)