prest i mony

[Fr. prest i monie, from Low Lat. præstimonium, from Lat. præsto =to afford, to provide.] Canon Law : A fund for the support of a priest, appropriated by the founder, but not erected into any title or benefice, and not subject to the pope or the ordinary, but of which the patron is collator. ( Eng . ) près-tis-si-mō, adv. [Ital.] Music : Very fast indeed. *prěst-lý, adv . [Eng. prest , a.; -ly .] Quickly. "Prestly and readily shewed foorth."- Udall : Luke xxiv. ready.] [PREST, a.] prěs-tō, adv . [Ital., from Lat. præsto =at hand, 1. Ord. Lang .: Quickly, at once. Now only used by jugglers as a word of command for sudden changes. 2. Music : Fast, quickly; presto a ai =very fast. *pre-stric'-tion, s. [Lat. præstrictio =a binding up, from præstrict us , pa. par. of præstringo =to tie or bind up, to make blunt or dim.] An obstruction of the sight; dimne or dullne of sight. "It is feared you have Balaam's disease, a pearl in your eye, Mammon's prestriction." -Milton : Animadversion, . *pre-stud-ý, v . t . [Pref. pre- , and Eng.study, v. (q. v.)] To study beforehand. preached what he had pre studied ."-Ful "He ler: Worthies i. 165.