pretermit (pretermit)

t.; pret. and pp. pretermitted, ppr. pretermitting. [OF.preter metre, pretermettre = Sp. pretermitir = Pg. pre termittir = It. pretermettere, The Mariners, seeing a fit gale of winde for their purpose, wished Capnio to make no delayes, least (if they pre term it ted this good Weather) they might stay long ere they had such a faire Winde. Greene, Pandosto. Such an one as keeps the watch of his God, and preter mits no day without the forementioned duties, shall seldom or never fall into any foul slough. Rev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 29. 2. To omit; leave unnoticed or unmentioned; disregard; overlook. I pretermyt also the ryche apparell of the prynce e, the straunge fa hion of the Spanyshe nacion, the beautie of the Englishe ladyes. Hall , Hen. VII., f. 53. ( Hall i well .) I haue not thought good to pretermitte that which chaunced to Johannes Solysius, who, to searche the South syde of the supposed continent, departed with three shippes from porte Joppa. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, ed. [Arber, p. 181). The birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be pretermitted by king or cobbler. Lamb , New Year's Eve. 3. To leave undone; neglect to do, make, or perform. We are infinitely averse from it [prayer], weary of its length, glad of an occasion to pretermit our offices. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 87. 4. To render ineffectual. [Rare.] To pretermit the vigour and firmne of Phillippe le Bel, Giovanni Buonacorsi of Lucca published, under the reign of Louis XII., a proposition that the pope was above the king in temporals. Landor, King James I. and Isaac Casaubon. pretermitter (prē-tėr-mitʻʼer), n. One who pretermits. [The poet] is himselfe partelye contented to be controwled by the stoick Damasip, as a sluggarde, and preter miter of duet i full occasions. Drant , tr. of Horace's Satires, ii. 3, Prol. preternatural (pre-ter-nat'ū-ral), a . [= OF. preternaturel = Sp. Pg. preternatural = It. pre ternaturale ; as preter- + natural .] Being beyond what is natural, or different from what is natural; extraordinary; being out of the regular or natural course of things: distinguished from supernatural , being above nature, and un natural , being contrary to nature. Any preternatural immutations in the elements, any strange concu a tions of the earth. Bp . Hall , Invisible World, i. § 4. Mr. Pick ering was a widower-a fact which seemed to produce in him a sort of preternatural concentration of parental dignity. H. James , Jr., Pa . Pilgrim, p. 191. =Syn. Miraculous , etc. See supernatural . preternatural ism (pre-tér-nat'u-ral-izm), n. [ preternatural reternatural + -ism .] + 1. The The tendency, habit, or system of ascribing preternatural qualities or powers to things which may be only natural; belief in the preternatural. Camille's head, one of the clearest in France, has got itself... saturated through every fibre with preternatu ralism of suspicion. Carlyle , French Rev., III. iii. 8. 2. Preternatural existence or existences. Words cannot expre the love and sorrow of my old memories, chiefly out of boyhood, as they occasionally rise upon me, and I have now no voice for them at all. One's heart becomes a grim Hades, peopled only with silent preternatural ism . Carlyle , in Froude, II. 19. front of the lower part of the leg: as, a pre- tibial muscle. pretium affection is (prē'shi-um a-fek-shi-o'- nis). [L.: pretium , price (see price ); affection is , gen. of affectio ( n- ), frame of mind, state of feel ing, affection: see affection .] The value put upon a thing by the fancy of the owner, or by the regard in which he holds it, as distinguish- ed from market or salable value. pretonic (pre-ton'ik), a . [L. præ , before, + Gr. τόνος , accent: see tonic .] Preceding the accent. Amer . Jour . Philol . , V. 499. IMG:content-0919.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0920.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0921.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0922.png:[blocks in formation] Pr. Sp. Pg. pretor = It. pretore , prætor , a leader, chief, head, president, governor, gen- eral, commander, pretor; orig. * præit or , one who goes before, præire , go before, lead the way, præ , before, + ire , go.] 1. In Rom . hist ., a title which originally designated the 2t. Excellently; well. consuls as the leaders of the armies of the state. Later (from about 367 B. C.) one and from about 242 B. C. two pretors were appointed as colleagues to the consuls, and specifically as judicial officers, one of whom the other ( prætor peregrin us ) causes between strangers, or between strangers and citizens. After the discharge of his judicial functions a pretor had often the admin i str a- tion of a province, with the title of propretor, or some- times proconsul. When the dominions of Rome were extended beyond Italy, the number of pretorships was increased, and finally, under the empire, became eighteen, or even more. The prætor urban us was the first in rank, and was specifically the Pretor . The profit of reading is singular, in that it serveth for a preparative unto sermons; it helpeth prettily towards the nourishment of faith which sermons have once engen- dered. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, v. 22. 3. In a pretty or pleasing manner; with neat- ne and taste; pleasingly; gracefully. Still she entreats, and prettily entreats, For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale. Thought and affliction, pa ion, hell itself, She turns to favour and to prettine . Hence-2. A magistrate; a mayor. Dryden. agreeablene . pretor i a, n. Plural of pretorium . pretorial, prætorial (pre-tō'ri-al), a. [= OF. pretorial = Sp. Pg. pretorial , L. prætori us , pertaining to a pretor ( prætor , a pretor, á leader: see pretor ), + -al . ] Same as pretorian . -Pretorial courtt, in the colony of Maryland, a court erected for the trial of capital crimes, and consisting of the lord proprietor, or his lieutenant-general, and the council. pretorian, prætori an (pre-to'ri-an), a , and n . [= F. F. prétorien = Sp. Pg. It. pretor i a no , prætorianus , pertaining to a pretor, of pre to- rial rank, also of or belonging to the pretorium or imperial body-guard, prætor , a pretor, prætorium , the imperial body-guard: see pre- tor , pretorium .] I. a . 1. Of or pertaining to a pretor; exercised by a pretor; judicial: as, pre- tori an authority; also, of or pertaining to a pretorium.-2. Of or belonging to the body- guard of a Roman emperor. - Pretorian gate, that one of the four gates in a Roman camp which was nearest the enemy, or directly in front of the general's tent. See plan under camp2 (at reference-letter 0). - Pretorian guard, one of a body of troops originally formed by the emperor August us to protect his person and his power, and maintained by succe ive Roman emperors down to Const an tine: so called as practically continuing the or- ganization and functions of the prætoria cohors , or select troops which attended the person of the pretor or the gen- eral of the republic. These troops were under a spe- cial organization, and had special privileges of rank and pay, raising them above the ordinary soldiery. They soon acquired a dangerous power, and for a considerable time raised and deposed emperors at their pleasure. - Preto- rian pact. See pact . - Pretorian testament. See testa- ment . II. n . A soldier of the pretorian guard. pretorian guard. pretorian ism p (prē-tō'ri-an-izm), n . [ pretorian + -ism .] Venal military despotism. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 5. 189. He was all life, all prettine e , far from morose, sullen, or childish in any thing he said or did. Evelyn , Diary, Jan. 27, 1658. 2. The state or quality of being pretty, or pleas- ing to the esthetic sense; especially, ly, the effect of beauty in its slighter, more delicate, and more evanescent forms; the charm of grace, harmo- ny, delicacy, or neatne , as presented to the sight or the hearing; diminutive or dainty beau- ty: as, the prettine of a picture or a tune; the prettine of a gesture, a dimple, or a lisp. dogs and most sorts of birds, all which are several modes of beauty. Dr. H. More , Antidote against Atheism, ii. 9. There [the squirrel) whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prettine of feigned alarm. pretorium (pre-to'ri-um), n.; pl. pretor i a (-a). [L. prætorium (> Gr. πραιτώριον ), a general's Hawthorne, Pa ages from Eng. Note Books, II. 306. tent, a council of war, the official residence of The painter was forced by the fervour of his pa- a governor, a palace, alace, the imperial body-guard, trons, and his own desire for money, to perpetuate pious the pretorian guard, prætor , a general, gov prettine es long after he had ceased to feel them. J. A. Symonds , Italy and Greece, p. 76. ern or, pretor: see pretor . Cf. pretory.] 1. That part of a Roman camp in which the gen pretty (prit'i), a . [Early mod. E. also prettie , 2. pretie ; dial. also pratty ; prety , preti , pra- eral's tent stood. See plan under camp2 .-2. The official residence of a provincial govern ty , prat i , clever, cunning, pretty, elegant, prættig , also, with lo of r , pætig , petig , crafty, a palace. wily, astute (glo ed by L. callid us , astutus , sa- gax , gnar us , vers i pell is ), = Icel. prettugr , tricky, deceitful; a ociated with the noun, ME. prat , præt , prætt , craft, art, wile (glo ed by L. astu , ars), Icel.prettr , a trick ( pretta , v., trick), = Norw.pretta , a trick ( pretta , v., trick); cf. W. praith , an act, deed, Corn. prat , an act, deed, cunning trick; prob. practic us , skilled, cunning (glo ed by peritus ), πρακτικός , skilled, versed in affairs: see practic . The noun, AS. præt , may be due to the adj., or, like the W. and Corn. words, it may be practic a , practice: see practice . For the sense of 'cun- ning,' or 'sharp practice,' cf. practice in like as- sociation. For the development of pretty from 'cunning' or 'skilled' to 'cunning' or 'tricky' Cursor Mundi. ( Hall i well .) and thence to 'neat, fine, small, and beautiful,' pretorship (prēʻtor-ship), n . [ pretor + -ship . ] The office or dignity of a pretor. pretorturet (pre-tor'tur), v . t . [ pre- + tor- ture.] To torture beforehand. Remarkable was their cruelty in pre torturing of many whom afterwards they put to death. Fuller , Ch. Hist., VIII. ii. 27. ( Davies .) pretoryt, n. [ME., also pretorie , pretoire , pretovn F. prétoire , pretorian guard, Pg. It. pre to pretorium .] 1. Same as pretorium , 2. Pilate up ros, and forth he zede Out of the pretory. Sp. pretorio , prætorium , pretorium: see pretty cf. the histories of cunning, fine, neat. There is an unconscious sympathy with neat trickery, or a secret admiration of it, that imparts to words denoting it a quality of commendation: the epithets cunning, shrewd, clever, sharp, smart, keen, cute, etc., though they may insinuate dishonesty, are likely to be received with a secret complacency by those to whom they are applied.] 1. Crafty; cunning; clever; shrewd; keen. [Obsolete or archaic.] It is great pitie that so prettie a fellow had not occupied his braynes in studies of more consequence. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 258. Meldritch, intending to make his pa age perforce, was advised of a pretty stratagem by the English Smith. Capt . John Smith , True Travels, I. 26. Aboute some 3. or 4. years before this time ther came over one Captaine Wolastone (a man of pretie parts). Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 235. Egad! ma'am, he has a pretty wit, and is a pretty poet Sheridan , School for Scandal, i. 1. too. IMG:content-0923.png:[blocks in formation] They call upon me to help them with tooles faster then I can get them, though I have now bought pretty store. T. Shepard , Clear Sunshine of the Gospel, p. 42. 8. A term of endearment, supplying the place of a diminutive. Piteous plainings of the pretty babes. Shak., C. of E., i. 1. 73. This pretty , puny, weakly little one. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. =Syn. 3. Handsome , Fair , etc. See beautiful . arms. Euen before in the frunt of that faire yle Was a prouynse of prise, & praty men in. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 10815. Did you ever see a prettier man Than this Trumpeter of Fyvie? Andrew Lammie (Child's Ballads, II. 192). that we would have broken the prison with such violence as, if master bailiffs had not played the pretty men, we should have made a scape. Bp. Ridley , in Bradford's Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 83. There is risen a rumour He even mentioned the exact number of recruits who had joined Waverley's troop from his uncle's estate, and observed they were pretty men - meaning not handsome, but stout warlike fellows. Scott , Waverley. 3. Comely; handsome; good-looking; hence, in later use, pleasing to the esthetic sense; attractive through grace, elegance, neatne , harmony of parts, or delicacy of outline or coloring; having delicate beauty; pleasing the eye or ear rather than impre ing the mind; as, a pretty face; a pretty cottage; a pretty picture. In this use the word implies a certain slightne , limitation, or lack of power, and hence is easily made deprecia tive in cases where these attributes are out of place. To curte he came a prat ye yong seruaunt. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 302. So doth the earth see me to dance, in little Hillocks and pretie Vallies, diuersifying the soile. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 615. That which is little can be but pretty , and by claiming dignity becomes ridiculous. Johnson . Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Pope , R. of the L. Can any wife be prettier than an after dinner fancy, idle and yet vivid, can paint for you? D. G. Mitchell, Reveries of a Bachelor, i. It will be a sufficient word to the wise to say that it is a pretty book, and that it ends with a death. The Academy , No. 891, p. 374. Hence-4. Affectedly neat or fastidious about one's personal appearance; finical; foppish. I don't design you to personate a real Man, you are only to be a pretty Gentleman. Steele , Tender Husband, i. 1. The pretty gentleman must have his airs. Steele, Guardian, No. 38. 5. Pleasing in general; pleasing to the mind; interesting; entertaining; gratifying. Birds that at sun-rising filled the wood with such a variety of notes as made the prettiest confusion imaginable. Add is on, Ancient Medals, iii. 'Tis pretty to observe how the King Disciplines this great City by small instances of Obedience. Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 16. It was pretty to see how easily the membranous cap of the rostellum [in Epipactis Palustris ) came off. Darwin , Fertil. of Orchids by Insects, p. 97. 6. Excellent; good; fine; nice: said loosely, like fine and nice , of almost any object or action as a general term of commendation, and also, like fine and nice , often used ironically, especially in exclamatory sentences. Some speech may be whan it is spoken very vndecent, and yet the same, hauing afterward somewhat added to it, may become prety and decent. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 230. A pretty chandelier for a Christian Bishop to be chaining to the roof and lighting up for the glory of heathenism! De Quincey, Secret Societies, i. ly; reasonably; tolerably: expre ing a degree le than very: as, a farm pretty well stocked; pretty good lodgings; I am pretty sure of the fact. You are pretty near the busine , for the bottom of all is for want of a change in their mind and will. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , p. 208. Add is on, Tory Foxhunter. Sheridan (?), The Camp, i. 1. We sat pretty late over our punch. I think your tricks are pretty well known. Pretty much, very nearly; in considerable degree. The gallants of these times pretty much resembled the bloods of ours. Goldsmith, Reverie at Boar's-Head Tavern. The trade to India... carried on pretty much in the same manner as it had been before the days of Alexander. Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 468. pretty-gra (prit'i-gras), n. [Tr. NL. Calo chortus.] A plant of the genus Calochortus. These plants are gra -like below, but have large and beautiful flowers. Also called butterfly- weed, mariposa lily, and wild tulip. prettyism (prit'i-izm), n. [ .. My mother had contrived to keep a certain number of pretty pretties which were dear to her heart. They were not much;. some china and a little gla , a few books, and a very moderate supply of household silver. Trollope, Autobiog., p. 21. pretty-spoken (prit'i-spō"kn), a . Spoken or speaking prettily. pre tympanic (prē-tim-panʻik), a . and n . [ præ , before, + NL. tympanum .] I. a . 1. In an at ., placed in advance of the tympanum of the ear: as, a pre tympanic nerve. A smaller pre tympanic , which may represent the chorda tympani, and a larger post-tympanic or hyoid nerve. Huxley and Martin , Elementary Biology, p. 29. 2. In ichth . , anterior with reference to the tympanic pedicle or suspensorium of the mandible; anterior among a set of bones composing this pedicle: correlated with epi- , me so- , and hypo tympanic . to quadrate. II. n. The pre tympanic bone or cartilage of the suspensorium of the lower jaw of fishes, now generally called meta pterygoid , under which name it is shown in the cut under pal a pre typify (pre-tip'i-fi), v . t .; pret. and pp. pre typified , ppr. pre typifying . [ pre- + typify .] To typify what is to come after in course of evolution, as an archetype; prefigure, forecast, or foreshadow. Thus the se ion of the Me ias was pre typified . Ep . Pearson , Expos. of Creed, vi. ( Latham .) Paramecium and its allies would thus appear to pretyp ify the Turbellarians. W. S. Kent , Man. Infus., p. 103. pretzel (pret's el), n. [ pretzel , var. of bret prevalence Pg. prevalecer ), prevail, It came to pa , when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed ; and when he let down his hand, Amalek Ex. xvii. 11. prevailed. Meldritch, seeing there was no po ibiliti long to pre uaile , ioyned his small troopes in one body. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, I. 28. The disquiets of my mind prevailed over my wearine , and kept me awake. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, iii. 1. 2. To have or exert superior influence; have a controlling or overmastering authority; be predominant. Barbarous climes, where violence prevails , And strength is lord of all. Couper , Task, i. 604. Will he [man] not see, through all he miscalls accident. that Law prevails for ever and ever? Emerson , Domestic Life. 3. To operate effectually; be effective; succeed, especially in persuading, inducing, or convincing. If then My words preuailde when they were wickedne e, How much more now when they are just and good! Tourneur , Revenger's Tragedy, iv. 4. For when a world of men Could not prevail with all their oratory, Yet hath a woman's kindne over-ruled. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 2. 49. If Arguments prevaile not with such a one, force is well us'd. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, vi. 4. To be in force; extend with power or effect; hence, to be prevalent or current. It is plain from all history that two abominable practices, the one the eating of men, the other of sacrificing them to the devil, prevailed all over Africa. Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 393. The Canarese alphabet prevails on the plateau of Mysore, in the western districts of the Nizam territory, and to a small extent in the Canara district on the Malabar coast. Isaac Taylor , The Alphabet, II. 355. The morning comes; and thickening fogs prevail , Hanging like curtains all the horizon round. Jones Very , Poems, p. 99. 5†. To be currently received or believed; be established. The second shock having happened exactly a month after the former, it prevails that there will be a third. Walpole, Letters, II. 201. 6t. To avail; be of value or service. What he shuld do he told hym euery thing, That myght only to his wurchippe prevaile . Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1040. For speech it selfe is artificiall and made by man, and the more pleasing it is the more it prevail eth to such purpose as it is intended for. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 5. II.t trans . To avail: used reflexively. Prevail yourself of what occasion gives. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., 1. 461. prevailing (pre-vāʻling), p. a. 1. Predominant; having superior influence or efficiency; controlling; moving. The nightingale sings with more prevailing pa ion in Greece that we first heard her from the thickets of a Eu ripidean chorus. Lowell, Oration, Harvard, Nov. 8, 1886. 2. Prevalent; current; general; common. Nothing sheds such light on the superstitions of an age as the prevailing interpretation and treatment of disease. O. W. Holmes, Med. E ays, p. 314. = Syn. 1. Predominant, Ruling, etc. (see prevalent ), dominant, preponderating.-2. Received, established, ordinary, usual. prevailingly (pre-vā'ling-li), adv. 1. With superior power or influence; so as to prevail. 2. Prevalently; currently; generally; for the most part. 2. Prevalently; currently; zet, I had a pretty dinner for them: viz., a brace of stewed for the first course. Pepys , Diary, I. 267. The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 3. In the convent his news made a pretty to do. Barham , In golds by Legends, II. 316. Yes, we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we ride four times as fast as our fathers did; travel, grind, weave, forge, plant, till, and excavate better. Emerson , Works and Days. armlet' (OF. bracel ): see bracelet.] A small brittle biscuit, usually baked in the form of a knot, and salted on the outside; a cracknel. The German beer-houses, with their baskets of pretzel , are more frequent as we approach the commercial quarters. Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 692. prevail (pre-val'), v . [Early mod. E. prevayle , prevailen , prevaler , prev a loir , F. pré valoir = OSp. prevaler = It. prev a lere (cf. Sp. IMG:content-0924.png:[blocks in formation]