prefident

English

Etymology

Compare Latin praefidens (“overconfident”). See pre- and confident.

Adjective

prefident (comparative more prefident, superlative most prefident)

1. (obsolete) Trusting beforehand; overconfident.
   • 1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts:

     If the Pastors themselves were not prefident and presumptuous over-valuers of their own apprehensions!

References

• “prefident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.