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third-person singular simple present preprograms, present participle preprogramming or preprograming, simple past and past participle preprogrammed or preprogramed
To program something in advance. examples
To predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours. quotations examples
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, page 149