preprogram

To program something in advance.

Verb

  1. To program something in advance.
  2. 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