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Bidding Prayer :: Bidding prayer () The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons..

Preconscious :: Preconscious (a.) Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

Afore :: Afore (prep.) Before (in all its senses).

Statutable :: Status quo () The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war..

Advise :: Advise (v. t.) To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk..

Prosecute :: Prosecute (v. t.) To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot..

Forerecited :: Forerecited (a.) Named or recited before.

Forelook :: Forelook (v. i.) To look beforehand or forward.

Cote :: Cote (v. t.) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare..

Soon :: Soon (adv.) Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early.

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.

Design :: Design (n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to..

Tweed :: Tweed (n.) A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving..

Fasces :: Fasces (pl.) A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority..

Dey :: Dey (n.) The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.

Mine :: Mine (pron. & a.) Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, Vengeance is mine; I will repay. Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel..

Ravelin :: Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon..

Ask :: Ask (v. t.) To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed..

Panorama :: Panorama (n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator..

Tersanctus :: Tersanctus (n.) An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word Holy -- in its Latin form, Sanctus -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion..

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