preconstitute

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ constitute.

Verb

preconstitute (third-person singular simple present preconstitutes, present participle preconstituting, simple past and past participle preconstituted)

1. (transitive) To constitute or establish beforehand.
   • 2015, “Staging the Politics of Difference: Homi Bhabha's Critical Literacy, Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham.”, in Gary A. Olson, Lynn Worsham, Henry A. Giroux, editors, Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination, page 133:

     Too often writing—in the broadest sense—is treated as a communicational medium where the subjects of that communication are constituted prior to the writing, where the objects of that communication are also constituted prior to that writing, and where the task of writing is seen as transparently mediating between already pregiven subjects, pregiven objects, and a preconstituted mise en scène.