preferre

preferre (third-person singular simple present preferres, present participle preferring, simple past and past participle preferred)

1. Obsolete form of prefer. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 118, column 2:

      […] let him go,
     And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “27. Of Friendſhip.”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 92:

     And therefore doe they preferre the beloved, and verifie that the Gods likewiſe preferre the ſame: […]

   • 1610, Saint Augustine, chapter XXI, in J[ohn] H[ealey], transl., St. Augustine, of the Citie of God: […], [London]: […] George Eld, →OCLC, book WHAT IT IS TO HAUE CHRIST FOR THE FOUNDATION: WHO THEY ARE, THAT SHALBE SAUED(AS IT WERE)BY FIRE. CHAP. 26., page 868:

     But if hee preferre theſe things before CHRIST, though hee ſeeme to hold his fayth, yet CHRIST is no foundation vnto him, in that hee preferres thoſe vanities before him.

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