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1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iv. App. 77 Whereupon they elected him for their King..and calling him unto them, shewed him the Lawes they had pre-established.

1729 New Test. (Mace) Acts xvii. 28 Having pre-establish'd the appointed periods, and the boundarys of their dominions.

1799 F. A. Winsor Prosperity of Eng. 5 In all arts and sciences, theory can only premise certain rules, and pre-establish causes to a supposed variety of effects.

1869 J. S. Mill Subject. Women ii. 73 The division neither can nor should be pre-established by the law, since it must depend on individual capacities and suitabilities.

1895 Daily News 23 May 6/3 What is very rare, Captain Bóttego did not exceed the sum pre-established.

1915 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 24 Feb. He had declared that an attempt was being made by the Republicans to pre-establish an alibi for a large budget.

1947 C. Day Lewis Poetic Image iii. 74 I fancy that the word 'sport', and the hint of imprisonment in the last line..do prepare the reader's mind to accept these metaphors..by preestablishing a delicate link between them.

1996 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Feb. 14 A constitutional charter cannot be reformed as a result of private negotiations between two leaders who try to pre-establish political advantages for themselves.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend III. 162 To..seek the ground of this agreement in a supersensual essence, which being at once the ideal of the reason and the cause of the material world, is the pre-establisher of the harmony in and between both.

1924 S. F. Gingerich Ess. Romantic Poets 61 This mental initiative, which is reason itself, has its ultimate source in a supersensual essence, the pre-establisher of the harmony between the laws of matter and the ideas of pure intellect.