predesign

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predesign (third-person singular simple present predesigns, present participle predesigning, simple past and past participle predesigned)

(transitive) To design beforehand; to predetermine.
- 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
  Tranquillity insued among the people ; and the cart , predesigned by heaven to bring a king, the author of so much good , was , with its appendages , dedicated to the god , and placed in the citadel , where it was carefully preserved

References edit

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