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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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157 words match “BEFOREHAND”

PRECOMPOSE v.
To compose beforehand. Johnson.
PRECONCEIT n.
An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception. Hooker.
PRECONCEIVE v.
To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of. In a dead plain the way seemeth the longer, because the eye hath preconceived it shorter than the truth. Bacon.
PRECONCERT v. 2 definitions
To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.
PRECONCERTED a.
Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n.
PRECONDEMN v.
To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.
PRECONSIGN v.
To consign beforehand; to make a previous consignment of.
PRECONSOLIDATED a.
Consolidated beforehand.
PRECONSTITUTE v.
To constitute or establish beforehand.
PRECONTRIVE v.
To contrive or plan beforehand.
PREDECLARE v.
To declare or announce beforehand; to preannounce. Milman.
PREDEDICATION n.
A dedication made previously or beforehand.
PREDEFINE v.
To define beforehand.
PREDESIGN v.
To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine. Mitford.
PREDESTINATE v.
To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preëlect. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Rom. viii. 29.
PREDESTINATIVE a.
Determining beforehand; predestinating. [R.] Coleridge.
PREDESTINE v.
To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate. Young.
PREDETERMINABLE a.
Capable of being determined beforehand. Coleridge.
PREDETERMINATE a.
Determined beforehand; as, the predeterminate counsel of God.
PREDETERMINATION n.
The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
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