Word Meanings - PRECONDEMN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.

CONDEMNER
One who condemns or censures.
CONDEMNED
1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. 2. Used for condemned persons. Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs
BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
CONDEMN
To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain. Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. (more info) 1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
CONDEMNABLE
Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.
CONDEMNATION
1. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley. 2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty,
CONDEMNATORY
Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.
PRECONDEMN
To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.
SELF-CONDEMNATION
Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.