Meanings
verbpredilect (third-person singular simple present predilects, present participle predilecting, simple past and past participle predilected)
present singular third person predilects · participle present predilecting · participle past predilected · past predilected
- transitiveTo elect or choose beforehand.
Heav'n to its predilected children grants / The middle space 'twixt opulence and wants.
1767, Walter Harte, “Eulogius”, in The amaranth; or, Religious poems
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