See pregage on Wiktionary
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"text": "by oath pregaged to the pope",
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"ref": "1670, Peter Heylyn, Ecclesia Restavrata: Or, the History of the Reformation of the Church of England, page 148:",
"text": "Ninthly, that the members of that Council of Trent, both Bishops and Abbots, were by Oath pregaged to the Pope, \"to defend and maintain his authority against all the world.\"",
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"ref": "1892, Aldémah, The Queens, page 53:",
"text": "Say to parliament that, as they have retained a part of their senses, and did not seek to force upon me, their rightful queen, a husband by name, nor yet so far forget themselves as to fix a date which, in their great minds, should be the limit of my singleness, I do answer to their broad address, that I will take the matter, of which you speak to freely, into my mind for reflection, and, if I can be made to feel the need of this which you have pregaged to deliver to me, I will inform your honorable body.",
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"ref": "1923, Henry Smith Williams, The Story of Modern Science- Volume 9, page 39:",
"text": "At the outset, however, he either failed utterly to pregage the possibilities of the method, or else through modesty declined to let his imagination take wings; for we find him, in an interview published in McClure's Magazine in 1897, when a considerable measure of success had been attained, declaring that it would be possible by the perfection of his method to send signals to a distance of at least twenty miles.",
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"ref": "1952, Railway Engineering and Maintenance - Volume 48, page 1029:",
"text": "As in most rail renewal operations, a plate setting device is used to pregage the tie plates for the DUN-RITE GAGING MACHINE.",
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"ref": "1953, SPE Journal - Volumes 9-10, page 34:",
"text": "The upper rolls pregage the plastics sheet and the lower ones widen it and produce the desired thickness.",
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"ref": "1970, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Urban and Rural Economic Development, The Impact of Franchising on Small Business, page 482:",
"text": "Still others have a series of psychological tests to pregage the likelihood of success of the joint venture.",
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