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pre-imagine, v.|priːɪˈmædʒɪn|
[f. pre- A. 1 + imagine; cf. med.L. præimāgināre (1132 in Du Cange).]
trans. To imagine beforehand; in quot. a 1631, to preconceive, presuppose.
a1631Donne Lett. (1651) 274 Everie addition preimagines a beeing. 1818Moore Mem. (1856) VIII. 233, I have done it,..but, as usual, not half so well as I had pre-imagined it.
So pre-imagiˈnation, imagination of something before the actual existence or experience of it.
1881Sully Illusions 105 The results of definite preimagination, including what are generally known as expectations. |