prise - significado y definición. Qué es prise
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Qué (quién) es prise - definición

ANCIENT RIGHT OF ENGLISH MONARCHS TO REQUISITION GOODS
Purveys; Purveyances; Purvey; Prise

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(BE) see pry2, 3
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(US prize)
¦ verb
1. use force in order to open or move apart.
2. (prise something out of/from) obtain something from (someone) with effort or difficulty.
Origin
C17: from dialect prise 'lever', from OFr. prise 'grasp, taking hold'; cf. pry2.
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see prize

Wikipedia

Purveyance

Purveyance was an ancient prerogative right of the English Crown to purchase provisions and other necessaries for the royal household, at an appraised price, and to requisition horses and vehicles for royal use. It was finally abolished in 1660.

Ejemplos de pronunciación para prise
1. There's all kinds of ways to prise open
Gold in a Brass Age _ David Gray _ Talks at Google
2. Because they kind of-- you have to prise the laughs out
_ John Cleese _ Talks at Google
Ejemplos de uso de prise
1. You can prise your way past the security fencing and see for yourself.
2. He will also try to prise Shaun Wright–Phillips away from Chelsea.
3. I used a couple of spent matches to prise it out.
4. One jogger, who tried to prise the knife from his hand, was injured in the scuffle.
5. Officers lugged cutting equipment to prise apart the twisted metal of destroyed carriages, freeing human remains.