appraestare

appraestare [cf. OF aprester] , to advance or lend (money). b (p. ppl. as sb. n.) advance payment, imprest. 13‥ (v. appraestatio); 1415 dicit quod ipse ‥ aprestavit predictas x m. Simoni March. S. Wales 56. b 1354 que vestimenta habuerunt de aprestito SelCKB VI 95.