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Precogitate :: Precogitate (v. t.) To cogitate beforehand.

Application :: Application (n.) Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the moral of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry..

Appose :: Appose (v. t.) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

Witenagemote :: Witenagemote (n.) A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest..

Prime :: Prime (a.) To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief..

Design :: Design (n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to..

Fasces :: Fasces (pl.) A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority..

Statutable :: Status quo () The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war..

Recite :: Recite (v. i.) To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned..

Biforn :: Biforn (prep. & adv.) Before.

Prerequire :: Prerequire (v. t.) To require beforehand.

Antecedence :: Antecedence (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence.

Appreciation :: Appreciation (n.) Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors..

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories..

Napping :: Napping (n.) A sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat body.

Stoned :: Stone (n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone..

Eve :: Eve (n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event..

Heretofore :: Heretofore (adv.) Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past.

Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..

Breechblock :: Breechblock (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired..

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