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▪ I. † prede, pread, n. Obs. rare.
Also 6 preede.
[ad. L. præda booty, spoil.]
Plunder, spoil, booty, prey.
1538St. Papers Hen. VIII, III. 41 He was constreyned to leave behinde him the spoile and prede he had there takyn. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 186 They..conspired together of all the preade & bootie that thei should geat not to bryng a iote into y⊇ kynges pauilion. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 35 For we hither sayld not,..from their region with prede too gather an heardflock. Ibid., etc. 139 Not a practise honest, nor a preede toe be greatlye recounted.
▪ II. † prede, pread, v. Obs. rare.
Also 6 preid.
[ad. L. prædārī to plunder, spoil, f. præda: see prec.]
a. trans. To plunder, rob.
b. absol. or intr. To seize booty, to plunder. Hence † preding, preading, vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. in Holinshed (1587) II. 23/1 The inhabitants being dailie and hourelie molested and preided by their prolling mounteine neighbors. 1600Holland Livy iii. vii. 92 To..sit still without preading, in a wast and desart countrey. 1609― Amm. Marcell. xiv. vi. 12 Crewes and troupes of preading brigands. 1632― Cyrupædia 66 Some Chaldees..that live by preading and robbing.
▪ III. prede
ME. dial. form of pride. |