prætenses

== English == === Noun === prætenses plural of prætense 17th Century, The Seuen Dayes Of The Weeke, in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana (T. Bensley and Son), volume I, page 41: (I hope these hard words doe not fright your senses I sweare tis not our meaninge, gratious vmpeere, To ravish you with showe of bad prætenses) === Anagrams === sea serpent