preprogram

English

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.

preprogram (third-person singular simple present preprograms, present participle preprogramming or (rare) preprograming, simple past and past participle preprogrammed or (rare) preprogramed) (transitive)

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
- 2007, Robin McKinley, Dragonhaven, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 149:
  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.

program something in advance

predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours