preprogram

verb — 2 senses

preprogram

verb

Etymology From pre- + program.

1

To program something in advance.

2

To predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours.

  • hard-wired behavior, or behavior that a dog's genetics have preprogrammed him to do
  • But while Lois getting it that the entire cottage was a no-go area might mean that she was preprogrammed by thousands of years of dragons raising their dragonlets in dens, I wondered if that was all it was.2007, Robin McKinley, Dragonhaven, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 149:

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