Pre`pro*vide" (?), v. t. To provide beforehand. "The materials
preprovided." Fuller.
Pre*pu"bic (?), a. (Anat.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the
pubis; pertaining to the prepubis.
||Pre*pu"bis (?), n. [NL. See Pre- , and Pubis.] (Anat.)A bone or
||cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of
||the pubic bones.
Pre"puce (?), n. [F. prÈpuce, L. praeputium.] (Anat.) The foreskin.
Pre*pu"tial (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prepuce.
{ Pre*raph"a*el*ism (?), Pre*raph"a*el*i`tism (?), } n. (Fine Arts) The
doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be
followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate
careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and
an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.
Pre*raph"a*el*ite (?), a. Of or pertaining to the style called
preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape.
Ruskin.
Pre*raph"a*el*ite, n. One who favors or practices art as it was before
Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
Pre*reg"nant (?), n. One who reigns before another; a sovereign
predecessor. [R.] Warner.
Pre`re*mote (?), a. More remote in previous time or prior order.
In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of
them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote
effect.
E. Darwin.
Pre`re*quire" (?), v. t. To require beforehand.
Some things are prerequired of us.
Bp. Hall.
Pre*req"ui*site (?), a. Previously required; necessary as a preliminary
to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
Pre*req"ui*site, n. Something previously required, or necessary to an
end or effect proposed.
The necessary prerequisites of freedom.
Goldsmith.
Pre`re*solve" (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Preresolved (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Preresolving.] To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. Sir E.
Dering.
Pre*rog"a*tive (?), n. [F. prÈrogative, from L. praerogativa precedence
in voting, preference, privilege, fr. praerogativus that is asked
before others for his opinion, that votes before or first, fr.
praerogare to ask before another; prae before + rogare to ask. See
Rogation.]
1. An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right;
fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official
and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for
the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as
to the fact and the manner of its exercise.
The two faculties that are the prerogative of man -- the powers of
abstraction and imagination.