prease
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]prease
- Obsolete form of press. [14th–17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- He […] turn'd abacke, and to retyre him hasted
Through the thick prease, there thinking him to hyde
Verb
[edit]prease (third-person singular simple present preases, present participle preasing, simple past and past participle preased)
- Obsolete form of press. [14th–17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- That it the Posterne did from closing stay :
The while the Prince hard preased in betweene
- Obsolete form of praise. [16th c.]
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