forestep

Definitions

an initial, previous, or early step; a prior stage or phase in a process or development cycle

Examples

“Segmentation, as a forestep to organization, involves the necessity of other foresteps as cancellations of like⟳ predecessors, as chaotifications of the separate⟳ processes without losing the increment of the power, the limitations of which constitute the lay⟳ out or type⟳ of body to be formed according to the seriations in order⟳, class, genera, species and variety, demanded by the germ under investigation.”

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