preëstablish

preëstablish (third-person singular simple present preëstablishes, present participle preëstablishing, simple past and past participle preëstablished)

1. Dated spelling of preestablish.
   • 1854, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, A Theodicy; or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, as Manifested in the Constitution and Government of the Moral World, New York, N.Y.: Carlton & Phillips, page 58:

     But the future, say they, is necessary, either because the Divinity foresees all things, and even preëstablishes them in governing the universe; or because all things necessarily come to pass by a concatenation of causes.

   • 1903 June 22, Ernest A. Faller, Signaling apparatus‎, US Patent 757,030, page 5, column 2:

     2. The combination with a plurality of selective devices adapted for use in preëstablishing a signal, of make-and-break devices, one for each of the selecting devices for transmitting said signal and adapted to make slidable contact with the corresponding selective devices at successive periods.

   • 1931, Francesco de Sanctis, translated by Joan Redfern, History of Italian Literature, Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., page 162:

     Here we get the Virgil tradition: the monarchy preëstablished by God and founded by Augustus, the descendant of Aeneas, Rome the head of the world through divine ordinance.