prelimitv.
/priːˈlɪmɪt/, U.S. /ˌpriˈlɪmᵻt/, Scottish English /priˈlɪmɪt/ Originally Scottish.
transitive. To limit or set the bounds of beforehand; to confine within previously fixed limits.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > beforehand
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1639 in A. Peterkin Rec. Kirk Scotl. (1838) I. 230 His majestie answered, he would not prelimite or forstall his voice.
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James II in Wks. (1711) 25 The Commissioners are chosen.., prepared, instructed, prelimited by him.
1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 81 Who have prelimited the Assembly, by their Letter and Act.
1749 W. Harris Hist. William-Henry Prince of Nassau & Orange iv. 86 It was prelimiting, and packing a Parliament, which, in its nature ought to be free.
1784 J. Brown Compend. Hist. Brit. Churches II. 244 The free election of commissioners had been prelimited by the letter and act of the Commission.
1880 D. Masson Life Milton VI. ii. ii. 412 A royalty duly prelimited and constrained into respectability.
1917 Amer. Anthropologist 19 187 It forever prelimits development and eternally chains the future to the poverties and paucities of the present.
1995 Poetics Today 16 620 Kurman..begins by defining ‘ecphrasis’ as ‘the description in verse of an art object’, thereby traditionally prelimiting it on three axes: the functional..the generic..and the mimetic.
Derivatives
preˈlimited adj.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective] > beforehand
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > restricted or limited > beforehand
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c1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 248 To thir Articles the ministers consented..for the tyme, even to be silent,..and to have a prælimited Assemblie, feareing, that if they had made any opposition, neither should a Generall Assemblie have been obtained.
1740 T. Crosby Hist. Eng. Baptists IV. iii. 300 Error, apostacy, human tradition, prelimited forms, mischievous error, carnal forms, carnal worship, &c.
1995 Toronto Star (Nexis) 22 Sept. a2 Remarkably, there's no pre-limited budget.
preˈlimiting n. and adj.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > beforehand
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > restriction or limitation > beforehand
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1652 J. Guthrie Vindication 141 It is very considerable to evince the pre-limiting of the Assembly.
1856 W. M. Hetherington Hist. Church Scotl. vii. 205/2 Restoring the king to full power, without any prelimiting conditions for regulating the exercise of that power.
1997 Microwave Jrnl. (Nexis) Aug. 90 The other technologies listed are prelimiting devices that exhibit RF leakage characteristics too high for receivers to withstand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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