precontainv.

1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 283 God is a most Simple Entity, precontaining in one most simple formality, the whole plenitude of Being.

1784 Kirwan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 162 Fixed air pre-contained in the dephlogisticated.

1799 R. Kirwan Ess. on Anal. Mineral Waters ii. ii. 190 The first precipitate, before ebullition, will consist of the aerated lime deposited by the lime water, and also of that pre-contained in the Mineral Water.

1873 W. H. Hill Elem. of Philos. iii. iii. 211 The effect is either virtually or formally precontained in its cause; and, therefore, it is really from the cause.

1915 A. Vonier Personality of Christ vi. 41 There must be in the replacing personality an Infinitude of personal worth, precontaining in its oneness all the created personal worth possible.

1989 Monumenta Nipponica 44 248 It is no exaggeration to say that when played back, in modo reverso, the entire articulation of Nishida's later ‘logic of basho’ will be seen to be precontained in the refrains of this earlier work.