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1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Y2 Nature has pre-compos'd us both to Love.

1651 H. L'Estrange Smectymnuo-mastyx 30 Every man is best able to know whether his own prayers be precomposed, or of sudden conception.

1777 J. Priestley Course of Lect. on Oratory iii. 263 The same discourse, delivered extempore, will always be heard with more pleasure than if it were pre-composed.

1799 C. Winter in W. Jay Mem. & Lett. (1843) 27 It is very easy to distinguish them [sc. sermons] which were precomposed, from others which were preached extempore.

1825 S. Johnson Lives Eng. Poets 321 Such was..his promptitude of language, that in the latter part of his life he did not precompose his cursory sermons.

1899 G. C. Gorham Life & Public Services Edwin M. Stanton I. 45 Mr. Stanton's manner of preparing his arguments in the Supreme Court was to arrange his matter in advance,..so that his great speeches were usually precomposed and committed to memory.

1986 Cultural Anthropol. 1 225 Regarding a performance as a rendering of a composition, whether in the process of improvisation on the spot or precomposed and memorized, the individual performer is given a privileged position.

2004 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 3 Sept. 21 The first piece seemed to be a freeform improvisation..; it was impossible to tell whether any of it was precomposed.