prefashionv.
/priːˈfaʃn/, U.S. /priˈfæʃ(ə)n/ transitive. To make or fashion beforehand or in advance.
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1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. xx. §7 Not prefashioned in mind to those descriptions the Prophets had made of his first comming in humility.
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 147 All your thoughts prefigured, and prefashioned, by All the spoyles, and onely spoyles.
1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture i. viii. 188 It seems to be, in some sense, pre-fashioned by what birth and nurture have communicated.
1985 Jrnl. Contemp. Hist. 20 681 Students observed the outward signs of near-total dependence of the middling assistants on their superiors, and this would pre-fashion their own social roles.
1996 New Republic (Nexis) 17 June 26 His wife..is a brittle dowager..whose every line of dialogue appears to have been pre-thought and prefashioned for inclusion in Bartlett's Quotations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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