preprogram

English

Alternative forms

• preprogramme

Etymology

pre- +‎ program

Verb

preprogram (third-person singular simple present preprograms, present participle preprogramming or preprograming, simple past and past participle preprogrammed or preprogramed) (transitive)

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

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

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

     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.

Translations

program something in advance

• German: vorprogrammieren (de)
• Italian: preprogrammare

predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours