preallable

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adjective

Preliminary; previous.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivepreallable (comparative more preallable, superlative most preallable)

comparative more preallable · superlative most preallable

  1. obsoleterarePreliminary; previous.

    And it was not to bee modelled or directed by the paterne of regular and remisse friendship, wherein so many precautions of a long and preallable conversation are required.

    , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.187

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchpreallable
  2. Englishpreallable

From Middle French preallable ( > modern préalable), from prealler (“to precede”).

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