prerequisiten.adj.

a1631 J. Downe Godlie Discourse Selfe-deniall in Certaine Treatises (1633) 9 Although in things supernaturall and spirituall the act of Willing be not in our power: yet are there many prerequisites going before which are in our power.

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 20) 1039 Knowledge is but a pre-requisite to the maine of obedience.

1671 E. Fowler Design Christianity xxvi. 279 An acute wit when it hath not a purified sense going along with it, is..far from being a sufficient prærequisite to the right understanding of Evangelical truths.

1758 Monthly Rev. 19 378 Prerequisites..expedient at least, if not wholly indispensable.

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon II. v. 129 That first ornament of a gentleman, that most essential prerequisite to the regard and affection of others.

1804 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 6 i. 133 Had they first examined into the fact, and endeavoured to settle this most essential pre-requisite, they would soon have seen, that the inquiry might be very easily terminated.

1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. Introd. iii. 164 The essential prerequisites for striking the balance.

1932 R. Niebuhr Moral Man & Immoral Society v. 127 Social inequality has been so basic to the history of culture that Mr. Clive Bell is able to regard the aristocratic organization of society as a prerequisite of high culture.

1994 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 Oct. (Weekend Suppl.) 8/5 A broad mind is virtually the only prerequisite to enjoying this light-hearted, well-written..film.

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 90 A condition prerequisite in the subject of sanctification.

1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 305 This breaking up of the Fountains of the Deep was a prerequisite condition.

1774 A. Gerard Ess. Genius iii. vii. 421 Knowlege..of the words of a language, of its structure, of the measures which suit it, is prerequisite to the poet.

1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. vii. 190 Attention is prerequisite to every effect of speaking.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xvi. 39 For the human soul to prosper in rustic life, a certain vantage-ground is pre-requisite.

1884 J. Burroughs Birds & Poets 185 Something..which is prerequisite to any deep and lasting success.

1948 W. Meredith Ships & Other Figures 24 Accurate knowledge was prerequisite. He set the Coole swans at fiftynine.

1990 Appl. Linguistics 11 333 Researchers and teachers interested in pedagogic innovation might wish to contemplate..whether conditions such as a sense of curriculum ownership are prerequisite.