† pre-resolvev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To resolve (beforehand) to do something.
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the mind > will > decision > resolve or decide [verb (intransitive)]
choosec1320
definec1374
to take advisementa1393
appointc1440
conclude1452
to come to (an) anchor?1473
deliber1485
determine1509
resolvea1528
rest1530
deliberate1550
point1560
decide1572
to set (up) one's rest1572
to set down one's rest1578
to make account1583
to fix the staff1584
to take a party1585
fadge1592
set1638
determinate1639
pitch1666
devise1714
pre-resolve1760
settle1782
to make up one's mind1859
1760 E. Thurlow Refut. Let. 16 He had pre-resolved to return home to his family.
1798 S. J. Pratt Gleanings Through Wales, Holland & Westphalia I. 209 It was not useless for a man, who had preresolved to set his face against wind and weather..to descend into the realms of disease and death.
1847 Christian Observer Jan. 17 They refuse even to listen to the evidence which convinces every person who has not pre-resolved not to be convinced, that man was not coëval with the megatherium.
2. intransitive. To decide upon in advance.
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1819 J. Keats Let. Sept. in Lett. (1947) 426 They never begin upon a subject they have not preresolved on.
1860 Times 27 Aug. 7/2 Mr Grant..had pre-resolved upon the destruction of the planters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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