Word Meanings - PREESTABLISHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Settlement beforehand.

SETTLEMENT
A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
DISSETTLEMENT
The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.
UNSETTLEMENT
The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. J. H. Newman.
RESETTLEMENT
Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees. The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.