different between prest vs drest

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st
• IPA^(key): /pr?st/

Etymology 1

Verb

prest

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of press

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French prest.

Noun

prest (plural prests)

1. (rare) A payment of wages in advance
2. A loan or advance (of money)

   • Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.

3. A tax or duty
4. (obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment
5. (law) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.

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Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old French prester, from Latin praesto, praestare.

Verb

prest (third-person singular simple present prests, present participle presting, simple past and past participle prested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To give as a loan; to lend.
   • 1550, Edward Hall, Chronicle

     a greate part of our armie already prested, and in our wages to go forward

Adjective

prest (comparative more prest, superlative most prest)

1. (obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.
2. (obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.

Anagrams

• 'terps, Terps, TrEPS, perts, strep, terps

Icelandic

Noun

prest

1. indefinite accusative singular of prestur

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French prest.

Alternative forms

• preste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr??st/, /pr?st/
• Rhymes: -??st, -?st

Noun

prest (plural prests)

1. loan, borrowing
2. tax, fee, levy
3. advance payment

Descendants

• English: prest

References

• “pr??st, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

Etymology 2

From Old English pr?ost, from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (presbúteros).

Alternative forms

• preest, preist, preost, preste, pruste, pruest, preoste, pryste, proste, proest, preyst, preeste, prist, priest

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pre?st/

Noun

prest (plural prestes)

2. A parish priest.
3. A Christian cleric or priest.
4. A non-Christian priest or religious head.

Derived terms

• parissh prest
• presthode
• prestly

Descendants

• English: priest
• Scots: preest, priest
• Yola: priesth

References

• “pr??st, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

Etymology 3

From Old French prest, a form of prés, from Latin pressus.

Alternative forms

• prist, preist, preste, pyrst

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Adjective

prest

1. willing, enthusiastic
3. prompt, alert, attentive
4. ready, set up, useable
   • c. 13th century, Robert of Gloucester, Chronicles

     He sende word , þat al prest to such batayle he was

5. bold, daring
6. nearby, close

Derived terms

• prestly

Descendants

• English: prest (obsolete)

References

• “prest, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

Adverb

prest

1. quickly, speedily, hastily
2. enthusiastically, readily
3. totally

References

• “prest, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

Middle French

Noun

prest m (plural prests)

1. loan

Related terms

• prester (verb)

Descendants

• French: prêt

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

prest m (definite singular presten, indefinite plural prester, definite plural prestene)

1. a priest, minister (etc.)

Derived terms

References

• “prest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

prest m (definite singular presten, indefinite plural prestar, definite plural prestane)

1. a priest, minister (etc.)

Derived terms

References

• “prest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

prest m (oblique plural prez or pretz, nominative singular prez or pretz, nominative plural prest)

1. loan
2. monetary gift

References

• prest on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old Norse

Noun

prest

1. indefinite accusative singular of prestr

Swedish

Noun

prest ?

1. Obsolete spelling of präst

English

Verb

drest

1. Obsolete form of dressed; simple past tense and past participle of dress
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]

Anagrams

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