preallable
English
Etymology
From Middle French preallable ( > modern préalable), from prealler (“to precede”).
Adjective
preallable (comparative more preallable, superlative most preallable)
- (obsolete, rare) Preliminary; previous.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.187:
- And it was not to bee modelled or directed by the paterne of regular and remisse friendship, wherein so many precautions of a long and preallable conversation are required.
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Middle French
Adjective
preallable m or f (plural preallables)
- that must come before (something)
- 1577, Johannes Bodin, Les six livres de la republique, page 7
- la fin principale de laquelle gist aux vertus contemplatives, iacoit que les actions politiques soient preallables.
- 1577, Johannes Bodin, Les six livres de la republique, page 7
References
- Etymology and history of “préalable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (prealable, supplement)