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Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.

The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth. [R.] Cotgrave.

tended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous. "The obstreperous city." Wordsworth. "Obstreperous approbation." Addison. Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. B. Jonson. -- Ob*strep"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob*strep"er*ous*ness, n.

A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.

Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama).

Noisy; obstreperous. [Obs.] Ford.

Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.

The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.

Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory. Laborious quest of knowledge preparative to this work. South.

By way of preparation.

One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. Agassiz.

Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.

purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden.

Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.

One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.

To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.

Payment in advance.

Situated in front of, or anterior to, the penis.

d; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense. This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error prepense. Southey.