Pronounced: sib-uh-RIT-ick, adj
Notes: I have run across this word in reading (but I don’t remember where), but I didn’t know the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word imprest means “a loan or advance of money”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1500s
Background / Comments
It is thought that our word, a noun, came from the obsolete verb imprest (to advance money to). That word came from the Italian word imprestare, which came from Medieval Latin imprestāre (to lend), which came from Latin im- plus praestāre (to tender; offer; present)
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