PREFER Copy link • PREFERTo value a person or thing more highly than another, praeponere: anteponere: praeferre: anteferre (general terms): aliquem potissimum diligere (to love anybody before others): rem aliqua re potiorem habere (to prefer one thing to another as being better, more important or advisable, etc., Caes., B. C. 1, 8 and 9): praeoptare (with following infinitive; to desire rather): malle (to wish or choose by preference, with following infinitive.; e.g., he preferred death, mori maluit). To promote, Vid: Offer, etc. To prefer a complaint, libellum dare judici, against anybody, de aliquo; a petition, libello or scripto adire aliquem (of a written petition): rogare aliquem aliquid (to ask him).