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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
preconstitute .
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"I'm not saying that there is a preconstituted recipe for labor reform but also that nothing is written in stone and so I invite unions to take part in honest and open intellectual discussion," Fornero told the newspaper.
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63 Scholarly and popular writings on body-marking in other contexts advance the metaphors of canvas, envelope, surface, or screen to convey the relationship between skin as medium and skin as message, yet these metaphors are all premised, as Frances Mascia-Lees and Patricia Sharpe have pointed out, on a patently Western vision of the body as unitary and distinct, a preconstituted "ground onto which patterns of signification can be inscribed."
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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(d) The theories formulated in the seventeenth cen - tury on the unity of the sciences presupposed empirical sciences treated in separation from one another except for a preconstituted general vision of the universe.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ENRICO DE ANGELIS 1968
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