foreconstruct
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foreconstruct (third-person singular simple present foreconstructs, present participle foreconstructing, simple past and past participle foreconstructed)
- (transitive) To construct in advance
- 1828, Thomas Jeffrey Llewelyn Prichard, The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti:
- A new idea of arrangement struck him while at breakfast, which quite altered his fore-constructed plan, and he began to act upon it as soon as conceived.
- 1908, Emil Reich, General History of Western Nations from 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D.:
- No amount of analysis of what can possibly be considered as the elements or factors of the English language as spoken and written in the period from 1520 to 1560 can enable us to foresee, to fore-construct, or even to account a posteriori for [...]
- 1993, Hamid Dabashi, Theology of Discontent:
- [...] will all be utilized to promote science and knowledge, society at large will intellectually grow, and tomorrow, thus foreconstructed, will be a day of "independence, freedom, prosperity, unity (monotheism), and self-realization.