preprogram
To program something in advance.
Verb
- To program something in advance.
- To predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours.
- hard-wired behavior, or behavior that a dog's genetics have preprogrammed him to do
- But while Lois getting it that the entire cottage was a no-go area might mean that she was preprogrammed by thousands of years of dragons raising their dragonlets in dens, I wondered if that was all it was. - 2007,...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English program English preprogram From pre- + program.
Forms
preprograms preprogramming preprograming preprogrammed preprogramed preprogramme