praeacceptare

praeacceptare [ML < CL prae-+acceptus, p. ppl. of accipere+-are] , to accept in preference. plerique peregrinationi diutine assueti patrie ~ant exsilium ‥ ego aliter sentio P. Blois Ep. 160. 455C; eam [sc. viam] que elatos humiliat, et exaltat humiles, que subtiles postponit, et ~at simplices Reg. Whet. II app. 377.