This page gathers the 5,602 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Archaic” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 39 of 56: from “prepossessing” to “purfle”.
- prepossessing adj Causing prejudice.
- presence noun An assembly of great persons.
- present verb To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.
- presential adj Implying actual presence; present.
- presently adv Immediately, at once; quickly.
- presentment noun An artistic representation; a picture.
- president adj Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.
- pressurage noun pressure
- presume verb To perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission.
- presumingly adv confidently; arrogantly
- pretensive adj Pretended; feigned.
- preterimperfect adj imperfect
- preteritive adj Used only or chiefly in the preterite or past tenses.
- prevarication noun Deviation from what is right or correct.
- prevent verb To take preventative measures.
- previously adv First; beforehand, in advance.
- prey noun Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war.
- priceless adj Of no value; valueless; worthless.
- prick verb To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
- pricklouse noun A tailor.
- pride noun Lust or heat; sexual desire (especially in a female animal)
- prig verb To filch or steal.
- prim verb To make one's expression prim.
- primacy noun Excellence; supremacy.
- primage noun A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
- prime noun The earliest stage of something.
- prime ministress noun The wife of a prime minister.
- prince noun A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.
- princess noun A female ruler or monarch; a queen.
- princified adj imitative of a prince; princely
- principality noun The state of being principal; pre-eminence.
- prism noun A spectrum produced by light being refracted through a prism.
- privilege verb To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize
- privity noun Privacy, secrecy.
- privy adj Secret, hidden, concealed.
- pro noun A proproctor.
- probation noun The act of testing; proof.
- procurer noun A person who incites or riles; an instigator.
- prodigious adv Synonym of prodigiously (“in a prodigious manner”).
- prodigy noun An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
- prodromus noun A preliminary course or publication; used especially in the titles of elementary works.
- producer noun A furnace for producing combustible gas for fuel.
- productible adj Capable of being produced; producible.
- profess verb To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).
- professor noun One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
- profundity noun Depth; the state of possessing great downwards extent.
- programmer noun A short film feature as part of a longer film program.
- progress noun A journey forward; travel.
- progue verb To prick
- projection noun The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
- prompt adj Ready; willing to act.
- propagandum noun An idea or topic spread with the goal of convincing or influencing large numbers of people, regardless of its actual validity.
- propelment noun Propulsion, the act of propelling.
- propense adj Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone.
- propitious adj Favorably disposed towards someone.
- proportion verb To correspond to.
- proportional noun A proportion.
- propriety noun A piece of land owned by someone; someone's property.
- prorogation noun Deferral to a later time; postponement.
- prorogue verb To defer.
- protectorian adj Synonym of protectoral.
- protocol noun An official record of a diplomatic meeting or negotiation; later specifically, a draft document setting out agreements to be signed into…
- protophytology noun paleobotany
- protuberancy noun The quality or state of being protuberant.
- prove verb To experience.
- providence noun Preparation for the future; good governance; foresight.
- prow adj Brave, valiant, gallant.
- proximate principle noun Any of a class of substances found ready-formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, such as albumin…
- prud'homme noun An honorable, upstanding man.
- prudential noun A matter requiring prudence.
- prunella noun A smooth worsted or silk fabric, generally black, formerly used for making shoes and clergymen's gowns.
- Prutenic noun a Prussian
- psalter noun Alternative form of psaltery, a kind of zither as well as the King James translation of certain obscure musical terms in the Old Testament.
- psychopannychism noun The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.
- psychosomatic adj Pertaining to both the mind and the body.
- public verb To make (something) openly or widely known; to publicize, to publish.
- publican noun Any person who collects customs duties, taxes, tolls, or other forms of public revenue.
- publicist noun A scholar, of public or international law.
- publishment noun publication.
- pucelle noun A girl, a maiden; a virgin (often with reference to Joan of Arc).
- puck noun A mischievous or hostile spirit.
- pudding noun A piece of good fortune.
- puff verb To advertise.
- puft noun A puff.
- pug noun Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
- pullback noun Something that holds back; a drawback; a hindrance.
- pulmonary docimasia noun A medical examination of a dead baby's lungs using a microscope, to determine whether air had entered them, and thus whether it was a case…
- pulsation noun Physical striking; a blow.
- pulsatory adj Played by beating, like a gong or a drum.
- pulsion noun The act of driving forward; propulsion.
- pulver verb To pulverise; to make into powder.
- pumpkin head noun A New Englander.
- punch adj Short and thickset.
- punctually adv Precisely; exactly; minutely.
- punicin noun Synonym of pelletierine.
- punk noun A female prostitute.
- puny noun An inferior person; a subordinate; also, an insignificant person.
- purblinded adj Synonym of purblind (“of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; (figuratively) lacking in discernment or understanding”).
- purely adv Without physical adulterants; refinedly, with no admixture.
- purfle verb To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border.