preëstablish
See also: pre-establish and preestablish
English
Verb
preëstablish (third-person singular simple present preëstablishes, present participle preëstablishing, simple past and past participle preëstablished)
- Dated spelling of preestablish.
- 1854, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, A Theodicy; or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, as Manifested in the Constitution and Government of the Moral World, New York, N.Y.: Carlton & Phillips, page 58:
- But the future, say they, is necessary, either because the Divinity foresees all things, and even preëstablishes them in governing the universe; or because all things necessarily come to pass by a concatenation of causes.
- 1903 June 22, Ernest A. Faller, Signaling apparatus, US Patent 757,030, page 5, column 2:
- 2. The combination with a plurality of selective devices adapted for use in preëstablishing a signal, of make-and-break devices, one for each of the selecting devices for transmitting said signal and adapted to make slidable contact with the corresponding selective devices at successive periods.
- 1931, Francesco de Sanctis, Joan Redfern, transl., History of Italian Literature, Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., page 162:
- Here we get the Virgil tradition: the monarchy preëstablished by God and founded by Augustus, the descendant of Aeneas, Rome the head of the world through divine ordinance.