preferre

preferre (third-person singular simple present preferres, present participle preferring, simple past and past participle preferred)

1. Obsolete form of prefer. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i], page 118, column 2:

      […], let him go, / And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “27. Of Friendſhip.”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821, page 92:

     And therefore doe they preferre the beloved, and verifie that the Gods likewiſe preferre the ſame: […]

   • 1610, Saint Augustine; Io[annes] Lod[ovicus] Vives [i.e., Juan Luis Vives], “What it is to haue CHRIST for the foundation: who they are, that ſhalbe ſaued(as it were)by fire. Chap. 26.”, in J[ohn] H[ealey], transl., St. Avgvstine, of the Citie of God: With the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J. H., [London]: Printed by George Eld, OCLC 677121045, book XXI, page 868:

     But if hee preferre theſe things before CHRIST, though hee ſeeme to hold his fayth, yet CHRIST is no foundation vnto him, in that hee preferres thoſe vanities before him.