"preëstablish" meaning in English

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      "form": "preëstablishes",
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    {
      "form": "preëstablishing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "preëstablished",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "preëstablished",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1854, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, A Theodicy; or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, as Manifested in the Constitution and Government of the Moral World, New York, N.Y.: Carlton & Phillips, page 58",
          "text": "But the future, say they, is necessary, either because the Divinity foresees all things, and even preëstablishes them in governing the universe; or because all things necessarily come to pass by a concatenation of causes.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1903 June 22, Ernest A. Faller, Signaling apparatus, US Patent 757,030, page 5, column 2",
          "text": "2. The combination with a plurality of selective devices adapted for use in preëstablishing a signal, of make-and-break devices, one for each of the selecting devices for transmitting said signal and adapted to make slidable contact with the corresponding selective devices at successive periods.",
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        {
          "ref": "1931, Francesco de Sanctis, translated by Joan Redfern, History of Italian Literature, Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., page 162",
          "text": "Here we get the Virgil tradition: the monarchy preëstablished by God and founded by Augustus, the descendant of Aeneas, Rome the head of the world through divine ordinance.",
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        "Dated spelling of preestablish."
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  "word": "preëstablish"
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    {
      "form": "preëstablishes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "preëstablishing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "preëstablished",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "preëstablished",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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          "ref": "1854, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, A Theodicy; or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, as Manifested in the Constitution and Government of the Moral World, New York, N.Y.: Carlton & Phillips, page 58",
          "text": "But the future, say they, is necessary, either because the Divinity foresees all things, and even preëstablishes them in governing the universe; or because all things necessarily come to pass by a concatenation of causes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1903 June 22, Ernest A. Faller, Signaling apparatus, US Patent 757,030, page 5, column 2",
          "text": "2. The combination with a plurality of selective devices adapted for use in preëstablishing a signal, of make-and-break devices, one for each of the selecting devices for transmitting said signal and adapted to make slidable contact with the corresponding selective devices at successive periods.",
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          "text": "Here we get the Virgil tradition: the monarchy preëstablished by God and founded by Augustus, the descendant of Aeneas, Rome the head of the world through divine ordinance.",
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