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  • præbendarius:—a prebendary.
  • præeptor:—an officer of the knights of the Temple.
  • præcantare:—to sing beforehand.
  • præceptoria:—the benehce assigned to the office of præceptor.
  • præcessor:—vanguard.
  • præcipitaria:—a battering ram.
  • præconia:—superiority; fame.
  • præconisare:—to foresee; to foretell; to proclaim.
  • præconsa:—some vestment.
  • præcontestis:—a previous fellow-witness.
  • præfectus:—a mayor.
  • præferentia:—preference; the right of receiving firstfruits.
  • præferrementum:—a prerogative; a privilege.
  • prælata:—an abbess.
  • prælatia:—ecclesiastical dignity.
  • prælatus:—a magistrate; a bishop; an abbot or abbess; a prior or prioress.
  • prælibare:—to mention before.
  • præmasticare:—to discuss beforehand.
  • præmiabilis:—deserving of reward.
  • præmunire:—to cite (for præmonere).
  • præposilura:—a reeveship, constableship; a district under the jurisdiction of such an officer.
  • præpositus:—a provost; a constable or reeve; a warden (of a church); a bailiff; the prior of a Benedictine Abbey.
  • præogativa:—prerogative.
  • præsellum:—a saddle bow.
  • præsentare:—to present.
  • præssentia:—a present, a gift.
  • præsentialiter:—immediately; in presence of; as a gift.
  • præstare:—to let.
  • præstitum:—an advance of money.
  • præsul:—a chief; a bishop; an abbot; a judge.
  • præsulatus:—a bishopric; an abbacy.
  • prama:—a prame, i.e., a barge or lighter.
  • pramo:—a bargee.
  • precaria, precarium:—a request by a lord to his tenant for aid or tax; extra service performed by tenants in ploughing and harvest, boonday, benewerk. See bedrepium.
  • precentaria:—precentorship.
  • precentor:—a precentor, a chanter.
  • precipitaria:—a battering ram.
  • precis. See precaria.
  • preciunt:—they cost.
  • preco:—a crier.
  • precula:—a rosary.
  • premorium:—a primer.
  • prenticius:—an apprentice.
  • prenum:—a press for wine, &c.
  • prephatia:—used for præfatio.
  • presbyter:—a priest.
  • presbyterayium:—the income of a parish priest.