prefine
English
Etymology
Latin praefinire.
Verb
prefine (third-person singular simple present prefines, present participle prefining, simple past and past participle prefined)
- (obsolete) To limit beforehand.
- 1610, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes
- prefining unto itself no other limits than the uttermost bounds of the earth
- 1610, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for prefine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)