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adjectivepreaction (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of pre-action.
nounpreaction (countable and uncountable, plural preactions)
plural preactions
- countableuncountableprevious action
Now, if an iron be touched before, it varieth not in this manner; for then it admits not this magnetical impression, as being already informed by the loadstone, and polarily determined by its preaction.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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