1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. iii. ii. 40 There was no Preconcert, nor any formed Design laid down; but the oppressed People gradually fell into this Rising.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xx. 58 A book, which, had there not been a preconcert, would not have taken his attention for one moment.

1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 395 A medical man being (by preconcert) at hand.

1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 241 The obvious inference is, a little useful deliberation and preconcert, when one goes to buy house and land.

1897 Eng. Hist. Rev. 12 260 Can we believe that even if the spies in England really specified these statesmen as holding such views it was not by preconcert with their employers in St. Germain?

1928 Cardinal Goodwin Trans-Mississippi West ix. 310 As soon as the grass began to grow, without preconcert, but as if by previous appointment, emigrants from Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Iowa..began to assemble at Elm Grove.

1990 H. R. Ryan Henry Ward Beecher 34 Although there was probably preconcert in enticing Beecher to the platform, the nature of the speech suggests that..the speech was delivered impromptu.

1922 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 19 Nov. 2 s Many pre-concert dinners are being arranged.

1978 J. Kogawa in Canad. Forum Mar. 28/2 You expect to hear..a pre-concert tuning up behind the curtains in the darkness.

2000 B. Berman Notes from Pianist's Bench (2002) x. 197 The artist's personality determines the nature of the preconcert regimen.

1709 I. Littlebury tr. Herodotus Hist. I. iii. 342 He desir'd the Command of some Forces; and having obtain'd his Request, acted as he had preconcerted with Darius.

1785 Daily Universal Reg. 2 July 2/3 The matter appeared to him so strange that he could not have supposed it could have happened unless it had been preconcerted.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. vi. 188 With this motive we must suppose them to have preconcerted their plans.

1855 Prince Albert in Lett. Q. Victoria (1907) III. 134 How can the Foreign Secretary and Ambassador at Paris..carry on their business, if everything has been privately preconcerted between the Emperor and the English Prime Minister?

1881 A. Trollope Dr. Wortle's School II. iv. 65 Indeed she did not really suspect the visitor, who was one too ingenuous in his nature to preconcert so subtle and so wicked a scheme.

1934 Times 18 May 13/3 A potential instrument for making their representation in the Federal Legislature the more effective by preconcerting policy there.

1996 Hist. Jrnl. 39 947 It really does look as if the announcement of the Reeves association was not preconcerted with ministers.