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Prested vs Pressed - What's the difference?

prested | pressed |

As verbs the difference between prested and pressed

is that prested is (prest) while pressed is (press).

As an adjective pressed is

under strain or deprivation.

prested

English

Verb

(head)
  • (prest)

    • prest

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (press)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , author = , title = , year = 1850 , page = 80 , passage = And when loftier mansions prest /Lure of pleasure on their guest, }}

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) prest

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A payment of wages in advance
  • A loan or advance (of money)
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.
  • 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.
    • (Cowell)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To give as a loan; to lend.
  • * E. Hall
    • Sums of money prested out in loan.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.
  • * R. of Gloucester
    • All prest to such battle he was.
  • (obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.
    • (Tusser)

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    pressed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (press)
  • contraction of impressed

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Under strain or deprivation.
    • The staff was even more pressed for useful intelligence about the enemy's intentions than it was about the enemy's capabilities.
    He found himself hard pressed .

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