preconcertedadj.

1705 Misc. Poet. Novels i. 18 One preconcerted Night, before she went to Bed, She to her Toe fixes a Thread.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. viii. 136 Upon preconcerted marriages, and in estates of considerable consequence, tenancy in dower happens very seldom.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 211 They do not go singly to work, but in large companies, and with preconcerted deliberation.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxvii. 328 As though the setting in of night had been their preconcerted signal.

1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism iv. 118 For hers is no preconcerted elopement.

1904 J. Conrad Nostromo ii. vii. 189 Then he took out the silver whistle he is in the habit of using on the wharf..and blew into it twice, evidently a preconcerted signal for his Cargadores.

1939 Times 30 Aug. 19/4 These committees, in the event of war, will put into effect preconcerted plans for ensuring the maximum efficiency of the ports.

1988 ELH 55 387 He cannot view his father's comfortable life as anything but a preconcerted history.

1792 J. W. Newman Lounger’s Common-place Bk. 41 If it is my fate to be cornuted..I am surely no worse off to have it regularly and preconcertedly performed by a well bred man of the town.

1897 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 8 59 Its organization is preconcertedly constituted for life in a specific medium.

1916 Indianapolis Star 26 May 8/6 A patient and determined effort is preconcertedly made at a precise period each day.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 168 The rhymes..well express the preconcertedness of Bolingbroke's scheme.