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Meanings of Praecipe:

noun

An order requesting a writ or other legal document.

Usage examples:

This action was commenced as a result of the order of the judge who set aside a praecipe order for …

Meanings of Praecipes:

noun

An order requesting a writ or other legal document.

Usage examples:

This action was commenced as a result of the order of the judge who set aside a praecipe order for …

Meanings of Praecognitum:

noun

A thing already known; especially a thing needed or assumed to be known in order to infer or ascertain something else. frequently in plural: basic assumptions, principles.

Meanings of Praecoracoid:

noun

A bone or cartilage in certain fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and birds, situated anterior to and sometimes fused with the coracoid bone of the pectoral girdle.

adjective

Situated anterior to the coracoid bone; specifically designating the bone or cartilage forming the precoracoid.

Meanings of Praecordia:

noun

A part of the body near or in front of the heart; (in early use) specifically †the diaphragm (obsolete); (in later use) specifically = "precordium".

Meanings of Praecuneus:

noun

A lobule of the parietal lobe of the brain located in front of the cuneus and behind the paracentral lobule.

Meanings of Praedial:

noun

Relating to land or the cultivation of land.

Meanings of Praefervid:

adjective

Perfervid.

Meanings of Praefoliation:

noun

The arrangement of leaves within the bud; specifically the position of the leaves in the bud in relation to each other.

Meanings of Praelect:

verb

To lecture or discourse; to deliver a lecture. frequently with on, upon.

Meanings of Praelection:

noun

A public lecture, talk, or reading; especially a college or university lecture given to students; such a lecture in written form.

Meanings of Praelector:

noun

A lecturer, a tutor, especially in a college or university.

Meanings of Praelectorship:

noun

The office or position of prelector.

Meanings of Praeludium:

noun

A prelude or introduction; a preliminary; a precursor or foreshadowing.

Meanings of Praemunientes:

noun

The clause of a writ of summons to parliament, first issued in 1295, in which the bishops and abbots called to parliament are ordered to summon representatives of the minor clergy to attend with them. usually more fully "praemunientes clause".

Meanings of Praemunire:

noun

The offence of asserting or maintaining papal jurisdiction in england.

Usage examples:

He had already moved against the clergy with accusations of praemunire and in 1532 forbade the paym…

Meanings of Praenestine:

adjective

Of, relating, or belonging to the ancient city of praeneste, its inhabitants, or its language.

noun

A native or inhabitant of ancient praeneste.

Meanings of Praenestinian:

noun

The dialect of latin spoken by the praenestines.

Meanings of Praenomen:

noun

An ancient roman's first or personal name, for example marcus tullius cicero.

Usage examples:

They seem to give the praenomen (personal name) titus to the same man, and a titus petronius niger …

Meanings of Praenomens:

noun

An ancient roman's first or personal name, for example marcus tullius cicero.

Usage examples:

They seem to give the praenomen (personal name) titus to the same man, and a titus petronius niger …

Meanings of Praeoperculum:

noun

The anterior of four bones forming the operculum in fishes.

Meanings of Praepositor:

noun

A prefect or monitor at various english public schools. compare "praepostor".

Meanings of Praepositus:

noun

(a title of) the head of any of various clerical or civil institutions; a presiding official, a provost.

Meanings of Praepostor:

noun

(at some public schools) a prefect or monitor.

Meanings of Praepostorial:

adjective

Relating to praepostors; also in extended use.