preallable

English

Etymology

From Middle French preallable ( > modern préalable), from prealler (“to precede”).

Adjective

preallable (comparative more preallable, superlative most preallable)

(obsolete, rare) Preliminary; previous.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.187:
  And it was not to bee modelled or directed by the paterne of regular and remisse friendship, wherein so many precautions of a long and preallable conversation are required.

Middle French

Adjective

preallable m or f (plural preallables)

that must come before (something)
- 1577, Johannes Bodin, Les six livres de la republique, page 7
  la fin principale de laquelle gist aux vertus contemplatives, iacoit que les actions politiques soient preallables.

References

Etymology and history of “préalable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (prealable, supplement)

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