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preimpose en · VERB

Etymology

From pre- + impose.

Meanings

1. To impose ahead of time.
   • It furthermore confirms, as James A. Davies has shown, that when drawn to contemporaries, Forster did not preimpose ideas upon his material as he did with those of the past, but presented 'honest revelation' bordering on explicitness. 1986, Ira B. Nadel, Biography: Fiction, Fact and Form, →ISBN, page 85:
   • Do not preimpose a subtopical order. Do not worry if a question seems repetitive; you will sort that out a bit later. 2000, Kenneth L. Carper, Forensic Engineering, →ISBN, page 312:
   • Indeed, the application of such procedures to raw data to produce dose-response curves tor examination and extrapolation tends to preimpose linearity. 1980, Disposal of Low-level Radioactive Biomedical Wastes, page 25:

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