PPage 581
- English Word Presumptuousness Definition The quality or state of being presumptuous.
- English Word Presupposal Definition Presupposition.
- English Word Presuppose Definition To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.
- English Word Presupposed Definition of Presuppose
- English Word Presupposing Definition of Presuppose
- English Word Presupposition Definition The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.
- English Word Presupposition Definition That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
- English Word Presurmise Definition A surmise previously formed.
- English Word Presystolic Definition Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart; as, the presystolic friction sound.
- English Word Pretemporal Definition Situated in front of the temporal bone.
- English Word Pretence Definition Alt. of Pretenceless
- English Word Pretence Definition The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.
- English Word Pretence Definition The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death.
- English Word Pretence Definition That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
- English Word Pretence Definition Intention; design.
- English Word Pretenceful Definition Alt. of Pretenceless
- English Word Pretenceless Definition See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless.
- English Word Pretend Definition To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
- English Word Pretend Definition To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
- English Word Pretend Definition To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.