prepelvisternum

See præpelvisternum. prepenset (pre-pens'), v. [Formerly also pre pence; All these thinges prepensed , gathered together seriousely, and... iustely pondred. Sir T. Elyot, The Govern our, i. 25. And ever in your noble hart prepense That all the sorrow in the world is le e Then vertues might and values confidence. Spenser , F. Q., III. xi. 14. Certain penalties may and ought to be prescribed to guilt: as in case murder upon prepensed malice. Prof. Barde leben has discovered traces of a prepollex and a prehallux in certain Reptilia. Amer . Naturalist , XXIII. 921. prepondert (prē-pon ́dėr), v . t . [= Sp. Pg. pre ponderar = It. pre ponder are, rare , be of greater weight, outweigh, be of more influence, præ , before, beyond, + pon derare , weigh: see ponder .] To outweigh; preponderate. Though pillars by channeling be beseemingly ingro ed to our sight, yet they are truly weakened in themselves, and therefore ought perchance in sound reason not to be the more slender, but the more corpulent, unle apparences pre ponder truths. Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, р. 27. preponderance (pre-pon'der-ans), n . [= F. prépondérance = Sp. Pg. pre ponder an cia = It. preponderanza , præponder an (t-) s , ppr. of præponder are , outweigh: see preponderant .] 1. The state or quality of preponderating or out derance of metal.-2. Superiority in force, influence, quantity, or number; predominance. He did not find. that any other foreign powers than our own allies were likely to obtain a considerable pre ponderance in the scale. Burke , Army Estimates. ent chemical appliances, we are able to produce a composition in no way inferior to the best China ink. Ure, Dict., IV. 436. 5. In music: ( a ) To lead up to by causing a di onance to appear first as a consonance: as, the discord was carefully prepared. See prep a ration, 9. ( b ) To lead into (a tone or embellishment) by an appoggiatura or other prefatory tone or tones. - Prepared trill, a trill preceded by a turn or other embellishment. II. in trans. 1. To make everything ready; put things in order beforehand. Boyet, prepare ; I will away to-night. Shak ., L. L. L., v. 2. 737. 2. To make one's self ready; equip one's self mentally or materially for future action. Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Amos iv. 12. And now his voice, accordant to the string, Prepares our monarch's victories to sing. Goldsmith, Captivity, ii. 69. prepare (pre-par'), n . [ prepare , v .] Preparation. [Obsolete or technical.] Go levy men, and make prepare for war. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iv. 1. 131. As prepares for steam-colours, all the antimonial compounds hitherto tried have shown themselves inferior to tin. W. Crookes , Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 542. preparedly (prē-par'ed-li), adv . With suitable preparation. The queen... desires instruction, That she preparedly may frame herself To the way she's forced to. Shak ., A. and C., v. 1. 55. preparedne (pre-par'ed-nes), n. The state of being prepared; readine : as, preparedne for action or service. Besides actually doing a thing, we know what it is to be in an attitude or disposition of preparedne to act. A. Bain , Emotions and Will, p. 551. prepare ment (pre-par'ment), n . [= Sp. prep a ramen to , pre para mien to = It. prep a ramen to , præpara mentum , preparation, præpa rare , make ready beforehand see prepare . ] Preparation. [Rare.] The soldier that dares not fight affords the enemy too preparer (prē-parʼer), n . [ prepare + -er1.] One who prepares. They [teachers] will be led to require of the preparers of school-books a more conscientious performance of their tasks. E. L. Youmans, in Grove's Corr. of Forces, p. viii. pre paroccipital (pre-par-ok-sip'i-tal), a. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 252. 2. To plan or devise beforehand; contrive previously. The seid Duke of Suffolk,. prepensing that your seid grete enemeye and adversarie Charles schuld conquerr and gete be power and myght your seid real me, councelled your heighne e to enlarge and deliver out of prison the same Duke of Orliaunce. Paston Letters , I. 100. I would not have the king to pardon a voluntary murder, a prepensed murder. Latimer , 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. II, in trans . To reflect or meditate beforehand. To thinke, consydre, and prepence . Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, iii. 24. prepense (pre-pens'), a . [With lo (in pronunciation) of the orig. accented final vowel (as in costive and other instances), pre pense , * præpens at us , pp. of * præpens are , think of beforehand: see prepense , v.] ered and planned beforehand; premeditated; purposed; intentional: generally in the phrase malice prepense (formerly also prepensed malice ). From that period whatever resolution they took was deliberate and prepense . v.] Consid Junius , Letters, xxxix. The fashion of their eloquence is more deliberate and more prepense . Swinburne , Study of Shakespeare, p. 69. Malice prepense. See malice. prepensely (pre-pens'li), adv . Premeditately; deliberately; purposely; intentionally. Shakespeare. has set himself as if prepensely and on purpose to brutalise the type of Achilles and spiritualise the type of Uly es. Swinburne , Study of Shakespeare, p. 201. prepensive (pre-penʼsiv), a . [ prepense + -ive . ] Same as prepense . The carrying the penknife drawn into the room with you.. seems to imply malice prepensive , as we call it in the law. Fielding , Amelia, i. 10. pre perception (pre-per-sep's hon), n. [ G. H. Lewes , Probs. of Life and Mind, II. xi. § 28. pre pigmental (pre-pig'men-tal), a. [ pre- + pigmental.] Situated within the pigmented layer of the eye, as in some cuttlefishes. IMG:content-0881.png:[blocks in formation] [ a . pre- + paroccipital.] Lying anteriorly in the paroccipital gyre of the brain: applied to a fis sure. prepatellar (pre-pat'e-lär), a. [ [ pre- + placental.] Prior to the formation of a placenta; previous to the establishment of placental connection between the fetus and the parent. Amer. Naturalist, XXIII. 926.