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preconˈform, v.
[f. pre- A. 1 + conform v.]
trans. and intr. To conform beforehand.
1845De Quincey Coleridge & Opium-eating Wks. 1859 XII. 110 There are..two classes of temperaments as to this terrific drug—those which are, and those which are not preconformed to its power. 1847― in Tait's Mag. XIV. 103 Though the passions..are such..as could not have existed under Paganism; in some respects they condescend and preconform to the stage.
So preconˈformity, antecedent conformity.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 186 These holy and humanizing spells, in the preconformity to which our very humanity may be said to consist. |