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pre-examine, v. rare.|priːɛgˈzæmɪn| [pre- A. 1.] trans. To examine beforehand.
1659Stanley Hist. Philos. xiii. (1701) 612/2 Private Prudence consisteth..in this, that a man..deliberately pre-examin the state in which he is to spend his whole life. 1828in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |