Crossword-Solution: PRECONTRACT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Precontract | v. t. | To contract, engage, or stipulate previously. |
| Precontract | v. i. | To make a previous contract or agreement. |
| Precontract | n. | A contract preceding another |
| Precontract | n. | a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it. |
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| to contract in advance | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
RALSOD
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with PRECONTRACT (5)
They held that their country was under a precontract to the Most High, and could never, while the world lasted, enter into any engagement inconsistent with that precontract.
Nay, my lord Knows that albeit their hands were precontract By Brute your father dying, no man of men May fasten hearts with hands in one accord.
Her exclamation— “_I_ wed with thee! _I,_ bound by precontract Your bride, your bondslave!” was scarcely uttered with the scorn which such a girl would throw into the words if her heart went with them.
The Abbess, it is true, remained silent for a moment after his arguments had been exhausted, but it was only to consider how she should intimate in a suitable and reverent manner, that children, the usual attendants of a happy union, and the existence of which she looked to for the continuation of the house of her father and brother, could not be hoped for with any probability, unless the precontract was followed by marriage, and the residence of the married parties in the same country.
The first sounds she there heard were, “Sir, I have given my faith to the Lady Eleanor of Audley, whom I love.” “What is that to me? ’Twas a precontract to my daughter.” “Not made by me nor her.” “By your parents, with myself.