prepotent (prepotent)

[ Here is no grace so prepotent but it may be disobeyed. Plaifere, Appendix to the Gospel, xiv. If the influence of heauen be the most prepotent cause of this effecte, then it seemeth to me that it shuld woorke immediatly. R. Eden, tr. of Biringuccio (First Books on America, ed. [Arber, p. 364). No dragon does there need for thee With quinte ential sting to work alarms, Prepotent guardian of thy fruitage fine, Thou vegetable porcupine! Southey, Gooseberry-pie. IMG:content-0884.png:[blocks in formation] tiwhat contrast between those days when the discerned our times of "telegraphic amba adors" and a pre potential "clerkery"! The Academy , Nov. 24, 1888, p. 329. II. n. A quantity similar to a potential and only differing therefrom in belonging to a force varying inversely as a power of the distance whose index is not one le than the number of dimensions of the space considered. prepractiset (pre-prak'tis), v. t. [ Making it nece ary for others what voluntarily they had pre practised themselves. Fuller , Ch. Hist., XI. iii. 14. preprint (prēʻprint), n . [ pre- + print .] That which is printed in advance; an early i ue, as of a paper that is to be published in a journal or as one of a series. [Rare.] To i ue these papers independently in a series of pre prints . The Academy , June 1, 1889, p. 385. pre proper at i on) (pre-prop-e-rā'shon), n . [ * præproperatio ( n- ), præproper are , hasten greatly, L. præproper us , very hasty: see pre proper ous .] Exce ive haste; precipitancy; a rash measure. I feare the importunity of some impatient, and subtlety of some malevolent mindes, will put both Parliament and A embly upon some pre proper a tions . N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 41. pre proper oust (pre-prop'e-rus), a. [ pre provide (pre-pro-vid'), v. t.; pret. and pp. pre provided, ppr. pre providing. [ vide.] To provide beforehand. Before livings were actually void, he provisionally pre provided incumbents for them. Fuller, Ch. Hist., III. ix. 25. prepubic (pre-pu'bik), a. [L. præ, before, + pubis, pubis.] In zoöl. and an at., situated in front of, or on the fore part of, the pubis; of or pertaining to a prepubis. Prepubic angle, the bend in the urethra of the pendent penis in front of the pubis.-Prepubic bone, the pre acetabular part of the pubic bone of birds and reptiles. See cut under pterodac tyl.-Prepubic proce , in Aves, the pubis proper, or pre pubis. A large spatulate bone [in Pterodactyl us ] articulates with each pubis near the symphysis, and seems to be an exaggeration of the pre - pubic proce of Lacer til i a and Chelonia. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 231. prepubis (pre-pū'bis), n.; pl. prepubes (-bēz). [NL. præpubis, prepuce (prē ́pūs), n. [ prepunctual (pre-pungk'tū-al), a. [ ly prompt in action or movement.-2. Acting or occurring before a specified point of time. pre punctuality (pre-pungk-tu-ali-ti), 4698 The Musk Deer... is small and hornle , and the male has canine teeth in the upper jaw. The musk is contained in a præputial bag. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 597. Preputial crypts, follicles, or glands, small lenticular sebaceous glands situated upon the corona gland is and cervix of the penis, secreting the smegma. Also called glands of Tyson and odoriferous glands . The corresponding structures of some animals are highly developed, and yield commercial products, as musk and castoreum. preputium, præputium (prē-pūʻshi-um), n.; pl. Pre preputia , præputia (-a). [L. præputium : seepre puce .] The prepuce or foreskin. In most mammals the penis is inclosed in a sheath of integument, the preputium . Huxley , Anat. Vert., p. 99. Frenum præputii. See frenum . pre pyloric (pre-pi-lor'ik), a. + NL. pylorus: see pyloric .] of the pylorus. - Pre pyloric o icle, in the stomach of the crawfish. See the quotation. [L. præ, before, Situated in front With this [urocardiac] proce is articulated, posteriorly, a broad pre pyloric o icle, which articulates anterior edge of the pyloric o icle, thus forming a kind of elastic diagonal brace between the urocardiac proce and the pyloric o icle. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 277. Preraphaelism (pre-raf'ā-el-izm), n. [= F. préraphaélis me; as pre- + Raphael + -ism.] Same as Pre raphae lit ism. Pre raphae lite (prē-raf'ā-el-it), a. and n. [= F. préraphaélite; as pre- + Raphael (It. Raf faele ), Raphael (see def. of Pre raphae lit ism ), + -ite2.] I. a. Pertaining to or characteristic of Pre raphae lit ism: as, Pre raphae lite theories; the Pre raphae lite school of painting. Every Pre - Raphae lite landscape background is painted to the last touch, in the open air, from the thing itself. Ruskin , Lects. on Architecture and Painting, iv. The Pre - Raphae lite movement is understood to have combined two very distinct aims: first, the intellectual elevation of art by the choice of noble and original subjects, and, secondly, its technical advancement by a new and minute analysis of nature. P. G. Hamerton , Thoughts about Art, xiii. II. n. One who practises or favors Pre raphae lit ism in art or poetry. The principal ground on which the Pre - Raphae lites have been attacked is the charge that they wish to bring us back to a time of darkne and ignorance, when the principles of drawing, and of art in general, were comparatively unknown. Ruskin , Lects. on Architecture and Painting, iv. Pre raphae lit ish (pre-raf'ā-el-i-tish), a . [ raphae lite + -ish1 .] Inclining toward or influ enced by Pre raphae lit ism; modeled upon Pre raphae lite principles. London Art Jour., No. 56, p. 222. prerogative Some things are pre - required of us, to make us capable of the comfortable performance of so holy and heavenly a duty. Bp . Hall , Devout Soul, iv. § 1. The primitive church would admit no man to the superior orders of the clergy unle , among other prerequired dispositions, they could say all David's psalter by heart. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 115.