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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, translated by Joan Redfern, 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.