prease

prease

1. Obsolete form of press. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     He […] turn'd abacke, and to retyre him hasted
     Through the thick prease, there thinking him to hyde

prease (third-person singular simple present preases, present participle preasing, simple past and past participle preased)

1. Obsolete form of press. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     That it the Posterne did from closing stay :
     The while the Prince hard preased in betweene

2. Obsolete form of praise. [16th c.]

• A-per-se, Parsee, Pearse, peares, rapees, serape

prease

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of prear