单词 | pre-arrange |
释义 | pre-arrangev. transitive. To arrange or agree upon in advance. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > arrange > in advance prefix1415 pre-arrange1791 pre-appoint1866 1791 E. Sayer Essays xi. 68 We shall preclude the smallest possible suspicion of our having pre-arranged and predisposed the events of the story it represents. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. vii. 133 With..the service pre-arranged in his mind, he offered himself as the messenger. View more context for this quotation 1896 J. M. Barrie Margaret Ogilvy x. 189 A sign, prearranged between us, that I was near by, and so all was well. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xxii. 306 It had been prearranged that when they came within a mile or two of camp one shot was to be fired to denote failure, or three for success. 1938 Times 1 June 14/3 The evacuation scheme..prearranges the fate of the private citizen in extraordinary detail. 1992 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 17 Sept. Teens had been known to pre-arrange places for secret beer parties out that way after high school football games. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1791 |
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