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praeasserere

praeasserere [ML < CL prae-+asserere] 1 to state or assert before. 1441 prior supradictus ~tam protestacionem in scriptis ‥ iteravit DCDurh. Reg. III f. 269r; 1456 ad ~ti juramenti prestacioni interessendum ‥ vocatis Pri. Cold. 187; s1465 omnes et singuli, ut ~itur, capitulariter congregati Reg. Whet. II 30; 1477 infra limites ~ti castri per dictos servientes escaetoris captum decernendo ‥ determinaret Mem. York II 217. 2 (p. ppl. as sb. n.) something stated or asserted before. dum tam precipitanter in ~tis assertorem reprobare non erubuisti E. Thrip. SS I 2.

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