foreconstruct

present singular third person foreconstructs · participle present foreconstructing · participle past foreconstructed · past foreconstructed · alternative fore-construct

1. transitiveTo construct in advance

   A new idea of arrangement struck him while at breakfast, which quite altered his fore-constructed plan, and he began to act upon it as soon as conceived.

   1828, Thomas Jeffrey Llewelyn Prichard, The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti

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   No amount of analysis of what can possibly be considered as the elements or factors of the English language as spoken and written in the period from 1520 to 1560 can enable us to foresee, to fore-construct, or even to account a posteriori for [...]

   1908, Emil Reich, General History of Western Nations from 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D.

   [...] will all be utilized to promote science and knowledge, society at large will intellectually grow, and tomorrow, thus foreconstructed, will be a day of "independence, freedom, prosperity, unity (monotheism), and self-realization.

   1993, Hamid Dabashi, Theology of Discontent

   Synonyms: preconstruct