precompose

English edit

Etymology edit

Verb edit

precompose (third-person singular simple present precomposes, present participle precomposing, simple past and past participle precomposed)

(transitive) To compose beforehand.
- 1708, Thomas Bennet, A Brief History of the Joint Use of Precompos'd Set Forms of Prayer:
  the precomposed Liturgy of St. Gregory
(transitive, mathematics) To apply (an operation) before another operation occurs.

Antonyms edit

postcompose

References edit

“precompose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.