Prearranged
[,priə'rendʒd]
Examples
- They are here, said Celia, with whom this explanation had been long meditated and prearranged. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Afterwards he had, to fulfill the prearranged cipher, to fill in any two words in each space. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Or could it be that there was a prearranged significance to such phrases as 'fly-paper' and 'hen-pheasant'? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Year after year, on the prearranged days, the prearranged letter came from the Colonel, and was opened by Mr. Bruff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In his student's chambers, he had prearranged his social action quite differently. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Four hours after the present time, that is, at midnight, he was to be ready to drive her to Budmouth, as prearranged. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- About a mile from the main camp we encountered their outposts and, as had been prearranged, accepted this as the signal to charge. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The matter was so prearranged that it is my belief that they brought with them some sort of block or pulley which might serve as a gallows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Malcolm