Meaning of pregage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To preengage.
   obsolete
2. To gauge beforehand; to make an initial estimate of size, magnitude or position.
   US

Examples

“by oath pregaged to the pope”

“Ninthly, that the members of that Council of Trent, both Bishops and Abbots, were by Oath pregaged to the Pope, "to defend and maintain his authority against all the world."”

“Say to parliament that, as they have retained a part of their senses, and did not seek to force upon me, their rightful queen, a husband by name, nor yet so far forget themselves as to fix a date which, in their great minds, should be the limit of my singleness, I do answer to their broad address, that I will take the matter, of which you speak to freely, into my mind for reflection, and, if I can be made to feel the need of this which you have pregaged to deliver to me, I will inform your honorable body.”

“At the outset, however, he either failed utterly to pregage the possibilities of the method, or else through modesty declined to let his imagination take wings; for we find him, in an interview published in McClure's Magazine in 1897, when a considerable measure of success had been attained, declaring that it would be possible by the perfection of his method to send signals to a distance of at least twenty miles.”

“As in most rail renewal operations, a plate setting device is used to pregage the tie plates for the DUN-RITE GAGING MACHINE.”

“The upper rolls pregage the plastics sheet and the lower ones widen it and produce the desired thickness.”

“Still others have a series of psychological tests to pregage the likelihood of success of the joint venture.”

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