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An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.

The state or quality of being irredeemable; irredeemableness.

Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder. -- Ir`re*deem"a*ble*ness, adv.

Kindred. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Kindred. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A miscreant, or believer in a false religious doctrine. [Obs.] Holinshed.

To surpass in giving rede, or counsel. [Obs.] See Atrede. Chaucer.

To prey; to plunder. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Premature decay.

To die sooner than. "If children predecease progenitors." Shak.

Going before; preceding. "Our predecessive students." Massinger.

r follows or comes after, in any office or position. A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had been over the interests of the state. Prescott.

To declare or announce beforehand; to preannounce. Milman.

A dedication made previously or beforehand.

To define beforehand.

Previous deliberation.

Previous delineation.

The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.

To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine. Mitford.

A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.