prefine

Latin praefinire.

prefine (third-person singular simple present prefines, present participle prefining, simple past and past participle prefined)

1. (obsolete) To limit beforehand.
   • 1610, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes:

     prefining unto itself no other limits than the uttermost bounds of the earth

• “prefine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.