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preallable, a. rare.|prɪˈæləb(ə)l|
Also 9 præ-.
[a. obs. F. preallable, now préalable going before, preliminary, f. OF. preal(l)er to precede (f. pre-, pre- A. 1 + aller to go): see -able; cf. obs. F. al(l)able passable (as a road).]
Preceding, previous, preliminary. Hence ˈpreallably adv., previously, beforehand.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xxvii. 93 Regular and remisse friendship, wherein so many precautions of a long and preallable conversation, are required. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 280 There are few..that have not preallably been stung with the tarantula of a preposterous ambition. 1883H. Juta tr. Van der Linden's Instit. Holland 274 It very often happens that the defendant..before answering makes one or more preliminary or praeallable applications. |