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A horse which prances. Then came the captain . . . upon a brave prancer. Evelyn.

Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.

Previous assurance. Coleridge.

n opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth. "Precipitance of judgment." I. Watts.

ate of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination. The predominance of conscience over interest. South.

Pregnancy. [Obs.] Milton.

Antecedent decree or determination. Shak.

position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed. Macaulay.

Priority of place in sitting.[Obs.] Carew.

A going before; anticipation in sequence or order. "The law of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence." Ward.

swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances (Astron.), certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which are seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a solar eclipse. They may be discovered with the spectroscope on any clear day. Called also so…

Origin; source; provenience.

Power; strength; might; force; potency. " Youths of puissance." Tennyson. The power and puissance of the king. Shak.

llowing out or after. Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths. Jer. Taylor.

rgatory." Piers Plowman. Roast [it] with fire, his head with his legs, and with the purtenance [Rev. Ver., inwards] thereof. Ex. xii. 9.

Purveyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ding or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management. Chaucer. The ill purveyance of his page. Spenser.

Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance. Omittance is no quittance. Shak.

The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. Milton. What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare ! Neale.

The act of rallying.