Obs. [a. Fr. appreste (mod. apprêt), OFr. apreste, f. aprester to make ready, f. à to + prest (mod. prêt):—L. præstus ready.]
1. Preparation, provision.
1539. State Papers Hen. VIII., I. 594. There is no apprest of any ships in Spayne.
1570. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), I. 408. The Christian princes … made their apprests for a new expedition.
2. Pecuniary provision; loan. (Cf. F. prester, prêter.)
1443. Henry IV., in Ellis, Orig. Lett., III. 34. I. 80. Easing vs by wey of apprest of the summe of c. marks.
