preëmptory
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See also: preemptory
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]preëmpt + -ory (adjectival suffix)
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]preëmptory (comparative more preëmptory, superlative most preëmptory)
Quotations
[edit]- 1863, Donald Grant Mitchell, My Farm of Edgewood: A Country Book, page 105:
- But with this, and all other aids — among which I may name the loose preëmptory reflections and suggestions of certain adjoining farmers — I was by no means proud of the appearance of the little herd of twelve or fourteen cows with which operations were to commence.
- 1926, S.S. McClure Co., McClure’s Magazine, page 380:
- We pulls into Coal Creek late that night, and then he suddenly gets all-fired preëmptory.
- 2003, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Theosophical Quarterly Magazine 1907, page 40:
- The King sent preëmptory instructions to his Ambassador at Rome, Cardinal D’Estrees, to enter the lists against Molinos and to do everything in his power to ruin him.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “preëmptory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. - see page 1128.