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Pretypifying

Pretypify \Pre*typ"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pretypified; p. pr. & vb. n. Pretypifying.] To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.
--Bp. Pearson.

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pretypifying

vb. (present participle of pretypify English)