pregaging

Verb

pregage (third-person singular simple present pregages, present participle pregaging, simple past and past participle pregaged)

1. (obsolete) To preengage.
   • by oath pregaged to the pope1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
2. (US) To gauge beforehand; to make an initial estimate of size, magnitude or position.
   • 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...1923, Henry Smith Williams, The Story of Modern Science- Volume 9, page 39

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