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Webster 1913 Edition
Preappoint
Preˊap-point′
,Verb.
T.
To appoint previously, or beforehand.
Carlyle.
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preappoint
preappoint
English
Verb
preappoint (third-person singular simple present preappoints, present participle preappointing, simple past and past participle preappointed)
- (transitive) To appoint beforehand.
- 1839 Thomas Carlyle, from letter quoted in Thomas Carlyle; a History of the First Forty Years of His Life by James Anthony Froude
- I am no man whom it is desirable to be too close to — an unhappy mortal — at least, with nerves that preappoint me to continual pain and loneliness.
- 1839 Thomas Carlyle, from letter quoted in Thomas Carlyle; a History of the First Forty Years of His Life by James Anthony Froude