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单词 pre-imagine
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pre-imaginev.

Brit. /ˌpriːᵻˈmadʒᵻn/, /ˌpriːᵻˈmadʒn/, U.S. /ˌpriᵻˈmædʒ(ə)n/
Forms: see pre- prefix and imagine v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, imagine v.
Etymology: < pre- prefix + imagine v. Compare post-classical Latin praeimaginare (1132). Compare slightly earlier pre-imagined adj. and later pre-imagination n.
transitive. To imagine beforehand, to preconceive.In quot. ?1610: to presuppose.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > occur to [verb (transitive)] > beforehand
foreconceive1556
preconceive1559
pre-imagine?1610
prefigure1626
preconceit1698
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > give mental shape to [verb (transitive)] > beforehand
fore-imagine1603
pre-imagine?1610
?1610 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 274 Everie addition preimagins a beeing.
1728 Mem. Eng. Officer 248 The Officers, both of Land and Sea, as was by the Friars pre-imagin'd, on taking the Town and Castle, immediately repair'd to the Grates of the Nunnery.
1818 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VIII. 233 I have done it,..but, as usual, not half so well as I had pre-imagined it.
1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 5 July in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 303 The scenery..is not..so rich..as I had pre-imagined.
1962 H. H. Hoeltje Inward Sky 417 The scenery of the shores of Loch Katrine, Hawthorne found not altogether so rich and lovely as he had pre-imagined.
2001 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 11 Nov. 1 g He [sc. Rodolfo Morales] pre-imagined what the village could become and propelled it into the future.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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