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1 praestruo
prae-strŭo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to build before, as a preparation for other buildings, to lay a foundation:B.praestructa (opp. ea) quae superposita incumbent,
Col. 1, 5, 9.—Transf., to build up in front, to block or stop up, to make impassable or inaccessible (mostly poet.):II.ille aditum vasti praestruxerat obice montis,
Ov. F. 1, 563:hospitis effugio praestruxerat omnia Minos,
id. A. A. 2, 21:porta Fonte praestructa,
stopped up, id. M. 14, 797; cf.:densato scutorum compage se scientissime praestruebant,
Amm. 14, 2, 10.—Trop., to make ready or prepare beforehand for any thing: fraus fidem in parvis sibi praestruit, prepares or secures for itself credibility in trifles, Liv. 28, 42, 7:B.praestruit ad illud quod dicturus est, multa esse crimina in Verre quae, etc.,
Ascon. ad Cic. Div. in Caecil. 8: tacitas vindictae iras. Claud. ap. Ruf. 2, 280:prius agmina saevo praestrue Marti,
id. IV. Cons. Hon. 319.—To arrange or contrive beforehand: cum praestructum utrumque consulto esset, whereas [p. 1432] it had all been concerted beforehand, Suet. Tib. 53:id scilicet praestruentes,
Amm. 31, 7.—Hence, praestructus, a, um, P. a., prepared:praestructum bellis civilibus hostem,
Claud. B. Gild. 285.
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