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preṣ

cl. 1. Ā. preṣate, to go, move, [Dhātup. xvi, 18] (v.l. hreṣ).

(pra-√ iṣ) P. Ā. preṣyati, °te (Ved. inf. preṣe, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 9], Sch.; ind.p. praíṣam s.v.), to drive on, urge, impel, send forth, [RV.]; [MBh.]; to invite, summon, call upon (another priest to commence a recitation or a ceremony [acc.] e.g. sāma preṣyati, ‘he calls upon to commence the recitation of a Sāman’; esp. Impv. preṣya, ‘call upon to recite or offer [acc. or gen.] to [dat.]’), [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.] (cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 61]; [viii, 2, 91]) : Caus. preṣayati, to hurl, fling, cast, throw, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to turn or direct the eyes, [Śak. ii, 2] (v.l. prerayantyā); to send forth, dismiss, dispatch, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to send into exile, banish, [R.]; [Kathās.]; to send word, send a message to a person (gen.), [R.]

préṣ f. pressing, pressure (with hemán, ‘urging pressure’), [RV. ix, 97, 1.]