Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRE-NOM'IN-A-TING, ppr.

Forenaming.

PRE-NOM-IN-A'TION, n.

The privilege of being named first. – Brown.

PRE-NO'TION, n. [L. prænotio; præ and nosco, to know.]

A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. Bacon. – Brown.

PREN-SA'TION, n. [L. prensatio, from prenso, to to seize.]

The act of seizing with violence. [Little used.] – Barrow.

PREN'TICE, n.

A colloquial contraction of Apprentice – which see.

PREN'TICE-SHIP, n.

A contraction of Apprenticeship – which see. – Pope.

PRE-NUN-CI-A'TION, n. [L. prænuncio; præ and nuncio, to tell.]

The act of telling before. [Not used.] – Dict.

PRE-OB-TAIN, v.t.

To obtain beforehand.

PRE-OB-TAIN-ED, pp.

Previously obtained.

PRE-OC'CU-PAN-CY, n. [L. præoccupans.]

1. The act of taking possession before another. The property of unoccupied land is vested by preoccupancy.
2. The right of taking possession before others. The first discoverer of unoccupied land has the preoccupancy of it, by the law of nature and nations.

PRE-OC'CU-PATE, v.t. [L. præoccupo; præ and occupo, to seize.]

1. To anticipate; to take before. – Bacon.
2. To prepossess; to fill with prejudices. – Wotton. [Instead of this, preoccupy is used.]

PRE-OC-CU-PA'TION, n.

1. A taking possession before another; prior occupation.
2. Anticipation.
3. Prepossession. – Barrington.
4. Anticipation of objections. – South.

PRE-OC'CU-PI-ED, pp.

Taken possession of beforehand; prepossessed.

PRE-OC'CU-PY, v.t. [L. præoccupo; præ, before, and occupo, to seize.]

1. To take possession before another; as, to preoccupy a country or land not before occupied.
2. To prepossess; to occupy by anticipation or prejudices. I think it more respectful to the reader to leave something to reflections, than to preoccupy his judgment. – Arbuthnot.

PRE-OC'CU-PY-ING, ppr.

Taking possession of beforehand; occupying by anticipation.

PRE-OM'IN-ATE, v.t. [L. præ and ominor, to prognosticate.]

To prognosticate; to gather from omens any future event. – Brown.

PRE-O-PIN'ION, n. [pre and opinion.]

Opinion previously formed; prepossession. – Brown.

PRE-OP'TION, n. [pre and option.]

The right of first choice. – Stackhouse.

PRE-OR-DAIN, v.t. [pre and ordain.]

To ordain or appoint beforehand; to predetermine. All things are supposed to be preordained by God.

PRE-OR-DAIN-ED, pp.

Antecedently ordained or determined.

PRE-OR-DAIN-ING, ppr.

Ordaining beforehand.

PRE-OR'DIN-ANCE, n. [pre and ordinance.]

Antecedent decree or determination. – Shak.

PRE-OR'DIN-ATE, a.

Foreordained. [Little used.]

PRE-OR-DIN-A'TION, n.

The act of foreordaining previous determination. – Fotherby.

PRE-PAR-A-BLE, a. [See Prepare.]

That may be prepared. – Boyle.