preëstablishment

See also: preestablishment

English

Noun

preëstablishment (usually uncountable, plural preëstablishments)

1. Rare spelling of preestablishment.
   • 1847, James John Garth Wilkinson, Posthumous Tracts, Now First Translated from the Latin of Emanuel Swedenborg, […], London: William Newbery, […]; Otis Clapp, […] Boston, pages 127–128:

     In this way he dams the stream and prevents the issuing waters, and puts out and kills in a moment all desire and hope of knowledge, declaring that harmony is preëstablished, or what is the same thing, that the preëstablishment is an occult quality. […] I shall not here entertain the question, how far these propositions are consistent with the foregoing, or with the system of preëstablishment;

   • 1860, A[rthur] Cleveland Coxe, Thoughts on the Services; Designed as an Introduction to the Liturgy, and an Aid to Its Devout Use, 2nd edition, Baltimore, Md.: Joseph Robinson, […]; New York, N.Y.: F. D. Harriman, […], page 80:

     The true reason for the preëstablishment of this Feast of Weeks, was then shown to be something greater than the giving of the Law;

   • 1862, Samuel Gilman Brown, The Works of Rufus Choate with a Memoir of His Life, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, page 74:

     You may admit some under specific, and some under ad valorem duties,—some under a low rate, and some under a high one,—some under a foreign valuation, others under a valuation at home,—and others, or all, under that legislative preëstablishment of value which the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. Simmons] proposes to substitute for fraudulent or mistaken estimates of actual and changeable value made abroad or at home.

   • 1896, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity: Including That of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V., New York, N.Y.: A. C. Armstrong and Son, page 353:

     Its lofty assertions that it came down from heaven as a religion of peace—of peace to the individual heart of man, as reconciling it with God, and instilling the serene hope of another life—of peace which should incorporate mankind in one harmonious brotherhood, the type and preëstablishment of the sorrowless and strifeless state of beatitude—might appear utterly belied by the claims of conflicting doctrines on the belief, all declared to be essential to salvation, and the animosities and bloody quarrels which desolated Christian cities.

   • 1900, August Drähms, The Criminal, His Personnel and Environment: A Scientific Study, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 28:

     The force of such comparison, it must be observable, lies not so much in the number of anomalies presented in delinquents as compared with normals ad libitum, as in the preëstablishment of a fixed basis for the comparison in the normals themselves.

   • 1901, Vida F[rank] Moore, The Ethical Aspect of Lotze’s Metaphysics, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 59:

     The problem is but referred back to an unintelligible preëstablishment of the world-order.