preimpose

present singular third person preimposes · participle present preimposing · participle past preimposed · past preimposed

1. To impose ahead of time.

   Do not preimpose a subtopical order. Do not worry if a question seems repetitive; you will sort that out a bit later.

   2000, Kenneth L. Carper, Forensic Engineering, →ISBN, page 312

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   Indeed, the application of such procedures to raw data to produce dose-response curves tor examination and extrapolation tends to preimpose linearity.

   1980, Disposal of Low-level Radioactive Biomedical Wastes, page 25

   It furthermore confirms, as James A. Davies has shown, that when drawn to contemporaries, Forster did not preimpose ideas upon his material as he did with those of the past, but presented 'honest revelation' bordering on explicitness.

   1986, Ira B. Nadel, Biography: Fiction, Fact and Form, →ISBN, page 85