preëmpt

Verb

preëmpt (third-person singular simple present preëmpts, present participle preëmpting, simple past and past participle preëmpted)

1. Dated spelling of preempt.
   • He was appointed probate judge by Governor Medary in 1859, and under the territorial laws it became his duty to preëmpt the townsite of Burlington, which he did, his predecessor, W. R. Saunders, having resigned to escape that duty.1912, Frank W. Blackmar, Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. — Volume III, Part 2, page 1329
   • …such as Koffka’s allusion ¹ to some lectures on personality by Wertheimer, one of the leaders of the Gestalt psychology, that not all its representatives share the circumscribed view that we must preëmpt the problem of perception in all its diversified phases before we can venture forth on any...1999, Abraham Aaron Roback, The psychology of character: with a survey of personality in general, page 384