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praetense

praetense [ML < praetensus p. ppl. of CL praetendere+-e] 1 by way of assertion or allegation, allegedly. 1325 judices appellacionis, dicto majori per dictos procuratores, in causa dicte appellacionis a dicta excommunicacionis sentencia per ipsum majorem, ~se datos et assignatos MunAcOx 115. 2 by way of pretension, fictitiously. de scismatico videtur ‥ eum prius fuisse vere vel ~e filium vere ecclesie Wycl. Ver. I 164.

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