单词 | pre-act |
释义 | pre-act, v.|priːˈækt| Also 7 præact. [pre- A. 1.] trans. and intr. To act beforehand. So pre-ˈacting ppl. a.; pre-ˈaction, previous action.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. ii. 61 An iron..being already informed by the Loadstone and polarily determined by its preaction. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. xi. ii. §33 Those [recreations], which, though acted after Evening-Service, must needs be preacted by the fancy..all the day before. 1660A. Sadler Subject's Joy 2 She also (to acheer the King) doth..præsagingly præact his just Inauguration. 1796C. Caldwell Three Phenom. Fever 10 These phenomena can no more occur, than an effect can..take place without the pre-existence and pre-action of its cause. 1870Proctor Other Worlds viii. 179 There is no form of force which is not the representative of some other pre-acting form of force. |

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