Definition of Preformed

1. Verb. (past of preform) ¹

2. Adjective. formed, constructed or assembled in advance ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Preformed

1. preform [v] - See also: preform

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preformed

prefork
preforked
preforking
preforks
preform
preformat
preformation
preformationism
preformationist
preformations
preformative
preformatives
preformats
preformatted
preformatting
preformed (current term)
preforming
preforms
preformulate
preformulated
preformulates
preformulating
prefossilized
prefrank
prefranked
prefranking
prefranks
prefreeze
prefreezes
prefreezing

Literary usage of Preformed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Educative Process by William Chandler Bagley (1908)
"The process of true reasoning — the formation of a judgment de novo rather than the application of a preformed judgment — involves what has already been ..."

2. The Educative Process by William Chandler Bagley (1905)
"The term seems thoroughly adequate also to cover the application to existing situations of most of the preformed judgments gained through social heredity, ..."

3. The Educative Process by William Chandler Bagley (1905)
"The term seems thoroughly adequate also to cover the application to existing situations of most of the preformed judgments gained through social heredity, ..."

4. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"At the same time, however, the preformed ammonia is obtained, ... From this result the amount of preformed ammonia and that present in the 20 grammes of ..."

5. The Influence of Inanition on Metabolism by Francis Gano Benedict (1907)
"Knowing that the fat in the body does not hold material amounts of water, it is hardly conceivable that the excretion of preformed water should have any ..."

6. The Influence of Inanition on Metabolism by Francis Gano Benedict (1907)
"Knowing that the fat in the body does not hold material amounts of water, it is hardly conceivable that the excretion of preformed water should have any ..."

7. The Influence of Inanition on Metabolism by Francis Gano Benedict (1907)
"Knowing that the fat in the body does not hold material amounts of water, it is hardly conceivable that the excretion of preformed water should have any ..."

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