preconformv.
/priːkənˈfɔːm/, U.S. /ˌprikənˈfɔrm/ transitive (usually in passive). To conform to beforehand. Also intransitive: to conform in advance. Now rare.
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1845 T. De Quincey Coleridge & Opium-eating in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 132/1 There are..two classes of temperaments as to this terrific drug—those which are, and those which are not, preconformed to its power.
1847 T. De Quincey Notes on Landor in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 103/1 Though the passions..are such..as could not have existed under Paganism; in some respects they condescend and preconform to the stage.
1873 M. Hopkins in G. M. Marsden Fundamentalism & Amer. Culture (1980) 13 Hopkins argued that people had a ‘right’ to one day's rest because their God-endowed ‘moral constitution’ was ‘preconformed’ to the Sabbath rhythm.
1891 Mind 16 31 On the other hand, when through habitual exercise an organised system of psychical elements has become so preconformed to a special class of familiar experiences..apperception may dispense with aid from attention.
1991 PC Sources (Nexis) July 131 These products come preconformed with the hardware and software needed to run the network.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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