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premediate

premediate verb: to advocate.

Verb

premediate (third-person singular simple present premediates, present participle premediating, simple past and past participle premediated)

  1. To advocate.
  2. To frame or mediate beforehand.
    • Just as remediation insists on the inseparabiilty of reality and mediation — the reality of media, their materiality as objects of circulation within the world of humans and non-humans, of society and of things — so the concept of premediation insists on the reality of premediated futures, or, as I...2010, R. Grusin, Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11, page 46
    • But the cueing of atrocity memory through substitutional representation can also be deployed to premediate events– in other words to frame the story before the event even begins .2013, Andrew Hoskins, Ben O'Loughlin, War and Media, page 1882

Forms of premediate

third-person singular presentpremediates
present participlepremediating
past participlepremediated
pastpremediated

Origin of premediate

From pre- + mediate.

Questions about premediate

What does premediate mean?
Premediate means to advocate.
What part of speech is premediate?
Premediate is a verb.
What is the past tense of premediate?
The past tense of premediate is premediated.

Words near premediate in the dictionary

  1. premechanized
  2. premed
  3. premedia
  4. premediaeval
  5. premedial
  6. premediate
  7. premediated
  8. premediates
  9. premediating
  10. premedic
  11. premedical

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