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To render active or potent. Coleridge.

To render the latent power of (anything) available. Dunglison.

To render practical. [R.] "Practicalizing influences." J. S. Mill.

Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation. There are men who always confound the praise of goodness with the practice. Rambler.

Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. Clarendon.

essary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation. This much will obviate and preclude the objections. Bentley.

a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it. Abbott.

o; as, debility predisposes the body to disease. Predisposing causes (Med.), causes which render the body liable to disease; predisponent causes.

To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.

ker. His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs. Clarendon. -- Prej`u*di"cial*ly, adv. -- Prej`u*di"cial*ness, n.

prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries. "Divers of the reverend prelacy, and other most judicious men." Hooker.

The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate. Blackstone. Presentment of a bill of exchange, the offering of a bill to the drawee for acceptance, or to the acceptor for payment. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.

e quality or state of being present; presence. [Obs.] "Presentness of mind in danger." Clarendon.

A payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering of a service. Burrill.

n, or with; as, I prevailedon him to wait. He was prevailed with to restrain the Earl. Clarendon. Prevail upon some judicious friend to be your constant hearer, and allow him the utmost freedom. Swift.

ce of a rumor. The duke better knew what kind of argument were of prevalence with him. Clarendon.

To render acid or pungent. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption. Blackstone. Probable cause (Law), a reasonable ground of presumption that a charge is, or my be, well founded. -- Probable error (of an observation, or of the mean of a number), that within…

The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. Clarendon.

er; as, proffers of peace or friendship. He made a proffer to lay down his commission. Clarendon.