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preinclude

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To include beforehand.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • November 10 1713, Samuel Clarke, letter to Joseph Butler [T]here cannot possibly be any notion of existence at all, but what shall necessarily preinclude the notion of that which has necessary existence.

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From pre- + include.