Presʹents.

Know all men by these presentsi.e. by the writings or documents now present. (Latin, per presentes, by the [writings] present.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Precocious
Prelate
Preliminary Canter (A)
Premier Pas
Premonstratensian
Prendre un Rat par la Queue
Prepense
Preposterous
Presbyterian
Prescott
Presents
Preserver [Sotēr]
Press-money and Press-men
Prester John
Prestige
Presto
Preston and his Mastiffs
Pretender
Pretext
Prettyman (Prince)
Prevarication