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单词 prefine
释义

prefine

English

Etymology

Latin praefinire.

Verb

prefine (third-person singular simple present prefines, present participle prefining, simple past and past participle prefined)

  1. (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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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