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A writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a reason for neglecting it.

Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example. Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only. Hooker.

Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure. "The rapidity of our too precipitate course." Landor.

That which is done in the way of preparation. "Necessary preparatives for our voyage." Dryden.

om the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.

however, between direct and presumptive (or circumstantial) evidence is now generally abandoned; all evidence being now more or less direct and more or less presumptive. -- Presumptive heir. See Heir presumptive, under Heir.

Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty; willful. "Keep back the servant also from presumptuous sins." Ps. xix. 13.

am. v. 5. Then the priest of Jupiter . . . brought oxen and garlands . . . and would have done sacrifice with the people. Acts xiv. 13. Every priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. Heb. v. 1.

Concealment of what is said or done. Shak.

le manner; in likelihood. Distinguish between what may possibly and what will probably be done. L'Estrange.

Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.

w. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings.

Efficient contrivance; management; agency. They think it done By her procurement. Dryden.

One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means.

te of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.

An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." Swift.

The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne. Promissory note (Law), a written promise to pay to some person named, and at a time specified therein, or on demand, or at sight, a certain sum of money, absolutely and at all events; -- frequently called a note of hand. Kent. Byles. Story…

Done or rendered quickly, readily, or immediately; given without delay or hesitation; -- said of conduct; as, prompt assistance. When Washington heard the voice of his country in distress, his obedience was prompt. Ames.

sh as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.