Word Meanings - PRECONSTITUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To constitute or establish beforehand.

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• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• ESTABLISH
  L. stabilire, fr. stabilis firm, steady, stable. See Stable, a., - 1. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. So were the churches established in the faith.
• 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,
• ESTABLISHED SUIT
  A plain suit in which a player could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.
• CONSTITUTE
  constitute; con- + statuere to place, set, fr. status station, fr. 1. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority. Jer. Taylor. 2. To make up; to compose; to form. Truth and reason constitute that
• ESTABLISHER
  One who establishes.
• ESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation. 2. The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state. 3. That which is established; as: A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially,
• CONSTITUTER
  One who constitutes or appoints.
• PREESTABLISH
  To establish beforehand.
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• REESTABLISHER
  One who establishes again.
• REESTABLISH
  To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reëstablish a covenant; to reëstablish health.
• PRECONSTITUTE
  To constitute or establish beforehand.
• PREESTABLISHMENT
  Settlement beforehand.
• REESTABLISHMENT
  The act reëstablishing; the state of being reëstablished. Addison.
• DISESTABLISH
  To unsettle; to break up ; to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.
• COESTABLISHMENT
  Joint establishment. Bp. Watson.
• UNESTABLISH
  To disestablish. The Parliament demanded of the king to unestablish that prelatical government. Milton.