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Definition and meaning of prestement
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prestement (adv.)
1.d'une manière preste; rapidement, vivement.
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⇨ definition of prestement (Littré)
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prestement (adv.)
agilement, bientôt, dare-dare, diligemment, expéditivement, hâtivement, lestement, précipitamment, presto, promptement, rapidement, rondement, vite, vivement
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Analogical dictionary
Le Littré (1880)
PRESTEMENT (adv.)[prè-ste-man]
Vivement, promptement.
• Les foulques regardent le chasseur, et plongent si prestement, à l'instant qu'elles aperçoivent le feu, que souvent elles échappent au plomb meurtrier (BUFF. Ois. t. XV, p. 330)
HISTORIQUE
XIIIe s.— Se les preudeshomes ne pouoient trouver serjant prestement.... (Liv. des mét. 154)
XIVe s.— Mais si grant fait n'oseroie entreprendre, Se je n'avoie avec moi prestement Vos trois enfans, pour moy duire et aprendre (MACHAUT p. 4)— Conjetturacion tost et prestement sans discucion faire par raison (ORESME Eth. 182)
XVIe s.— Le compagnon lui sauta si prestement à la gorge, qu'il lui osta ses pistolets avant qu'il pust tirer (D'AUB. Vie, XLI)
ÉTYMOLOGIE
Preste, et le suffixe ment. Dans l'ancienne langue, prestement, vient de prest [prêt].
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