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Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.

The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.

To advocate. [R.]

hink on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery. With words premeditated thus he said. Dryden.

With premeditation. Burke.

The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.

To merit or deserve beforehand. [Obs.] Eikon Basi

That which is presaged, or foretold. [R.] "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.

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

Production. [Obs.]

Proem. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.

The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak.

The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.

A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

To please. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Kindly; merciful. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.

A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. "Rude rablement." Spenser.

is and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.