preprogram

present singular third person preprograms · participle present preprogramming · participle present rare preprograming · participle past preprogrammed · past preprogrammed · participle past rare preprogramed · past rare preprogramed · alternative preprogramme

1. transitiveTo program something in advance.
2. transitiveTo predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours.

   hard-wired behavior, or behavior that a dog's genetics have preprogrammed him to do

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   But while Lois getting it that the entire cottage was a no-go area might mean that she was preprogrammed by thousands of years of dragons raising their dragonlets in dens, I wondered if that was all it was.

   2007, Robin McKinley, Dragonhaven, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 149