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prêcher d'exemple: to practice what one preaches
prêcher dans le désert: to preach in the wilderness, to speak in the wilderness, to be a voice crying in the wilderness
prêcher pour sa paroisse: to look after one's own interests, to advance one's own agenda
prêcher pour son saint: synonym of prêcher pour sa paroisse
prêcher un convaincu: to preach to the choir
prêcher un converti: to preach to the choir
prêcheur: preaching, moralizing
prêcheur: preacher, advocate of high values, moralist
prêle: horsetail (plant)
prêle des bois: wood horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum)
prêle des champs: field horsetail, common horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
prêt: ready
prêt: loan; lending, loaning
prêt étudiant: student loan (loan granted to a student in higher education to help pay for the tuition)
prêt-à-porter: ready-to-wear clothing, off-the-rack clothing, off-the-peg clothing
prête-nom: front man, figurehead
prête-plume: ghostwriter
prêter: to lend; to attribute; to lend itself to; to go along with; to borrow
prêter attention: to pay attention (to), to heed
prêter l'oreille: To listen up; to listen in
prêter le flanc: to lay oneself open, to leave oneself wide open
prêter main-forte: to come to (someone's) assistance, to lend a helping hand to, to offer one's support to, to help out
prêter serment: to take an oath
prêter à confusion: to cause confusion, to lead to confusion, to be confusing, to be misleading, to give rise to misinterpretation
prêter à rire: to be laughable
prêter à sourire: to be smile-inducing; to be rather laughable
prêteur: lender
prêteur sur gages: pawnbroker
prêtraille: priesthood, clergy
prêtre: priest
prêtresse: priestess; wife or lover of a male priest
prêtrise: priesthood
prône: sermon, homily
prôner: to extol, praise, laud; to recommend, advocate; to preach a sermon
psalmique: psalmic
psalmiste: psalmist
psalmodie: psalmody
psalmodier: to chant, intone (especially a psalm); to drone
psalmodique: psalmodic
psaloïde: psalloid
psaltérion: psaltery; bowed psaltery
psaume: psalm (all senses)
psautier: psalter
pschent: pschent
pschitt: hiss
pseautier: alternative spelling of psautier
psellisme: stuttering; dysphemia; a generic term used to describe all faults of pronunciation
pseudarthrose: pseudarthrosis
pseudencéphale: A severely deformed person whose encephalon is replaced by a vascular tumor.
pseudesthésie: pseudesthesia
pseudo: a nickname, handle or pseudonym
pseudo-bulbaire: pseudobulbar
pseudo-code: pseudocode
pseudo-coder: to describe using pseudocode
pseudo-colonne: pseudocolumn
pseudo-instruction: pseudoinstruction
pseudo-science: pseudoscience
pseudobulbe: pseudobulb
pseudocratère: pseudocrater
pseudogame: pseudogamic