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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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248 words match “PREVIOUS”

PREADMONISH v.
To admonish previously.
PREADMONITION n.
Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.
PREAPPOINT v.
To appoint previously, or beforehand. Carlyle.
PREAPPOINTMENT n.
Previous appointment.
PREASSURANCE n.
Previous assurance. Coleridge.
PRECAUTION n.
Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They [ancient philosophers] treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution. J. H. Newman.
PRECEDANEOUS a.
Preceding; antecedent; previous. [Obs.] Hammond.
PRECOGITATION n.
Previous cogitation. [R.] Bailey.
PRECOGNITION n.
Previous cognition. Fotherby.
PRECOLLECTION n.
A collection previously made. [R.]
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.
PRECONCEPTION n.
The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.
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.
PRECONDITION n.
A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.
PRECONSENT n.
A previous consent.
PRECONSIGN v.
To consign beforehand; to make a previous consignment of.
PRECONTRACT v. 2 definitions
To contract, engage, or stipulate previously.
PREDEDICATION n.
A dedication made previously or beforehand.
PREDELIBERATION n.
Previous deliberation.
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