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Preordained. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

The act of foreordaining: previous determination. "The preordination of God." Bale.

First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition. "The primordial facts of our intelligent nature." Sir W. Hamilton.

Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state. H. Spencer.

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

A name given to several kinds of plums; as, red primordian, amber primordian, etc.

Primordial. [R.] Boyle.

Situated in front of the notochord; -- applied especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the skull.

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] "I it you record." Chaucer.

Remembrance. [Obs.]

Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. [Obs.] Shak.

One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

The office of a recorder.

Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.

To excite to remorse; to rebuke. [Obs.] Skelton.

Remorse; compunction; compassion. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective. Bp. Burnet.

To order a second time.

A second ordination.

To repeat in the same words; to reëcho. [Obs.] Shak.