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Priested vs Prested - What's the difference?

priested | prested |

As verbs the difference between priested and prested

is that priested is (priest) while prested is (prest).

priested

English

Verb

(head)
  • (priest)

    • priest

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A religious clergyman who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
  • A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
  • (Mormonism) The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.

    • Derived terms

    * high priest * priestdom * priestess * priesthood * priest-king * priestly

    Coordinate terms

    * imam, guru, rabbi, sangha

    See also

    * archbishop * archimandrite * bishop * brother * clergy * clergyman * cleric * dean * father * monk * Monsignor * nun * prelate * vicar

    References

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ordain as a priest.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * *

    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)

    Anagrams

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