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pre-establish, v.|priːɪˈstæblɪʃ|
[f. pre- A. 1 + establish; cf. F. préétablir (Leibnitz 1710 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
trans. To establish beforehand.
1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. iv. App. 77 Whereupon they elected him for their King..and calling him unto them, shewed him the Lawes they had pre-established. 1775W. Craig Serm. (1808) II. 70 We have preestablished certain creeds or systems of religious belief as the truths of God. 1895Daily News 23 May 6/3 What is very rare, Captain Bóttego did not exceed the sum pre-established.
Hence pre-eˈstablished ppl. a.; pre-eˈstablisher, one who or that which pre-establishes.
pre-established harmony (after F. harmonie préétablie Leibnitz, Théodicée, 1710): see harmony 1.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Harmony, A pre-established harmony between the kingdoms of nature and grace. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 368 All the happiness..which..the pre-established nature of things will admit. 1777Priestley Matt. & Spir. (1782) I. vii. 83 Leibnitz [formed] a system which has obtained the name of the pre-established harmony. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 162 [To] seek the ground of this agreement in a supersensual essence, which being at once the ideal of the reason and the cause of the material world, is the pre-establisher of the harmony in and between both. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxi. IX. 222 His preestablished reputation and the habit of obeying his orders. |