Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PRE-NOM'IN-A-TING – PRE-PAR-A-BLE
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PRE-NOM'IN-A-TING, ppr.
Forenaming.
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.]
- The act of taking possession before another. The property of unoccupied land is vested by preoccupancy.
- 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.]
- To anticipate; to take before. – Bacon.
- To prepossess; to fill with prejudices. – Wotton. [Instead of this, preoccupy is used.]
- A taking possession before another; prior occupation.
- Anticipation.
- Prepossession. – Barrington.
- 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.]
- To take possession before another; as, to preoccupy a country or land not before occupied.
- 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.]
The act of foreordaining previous determination. – Fotherby.
PRE-PAR-A-BLE, a. [See Prepare.]
That may be prepared. – Boyle.