English

Alternative forms

• pre-emptory
• preemptory

Adjective

preëmptory ‎(comparative more preëmptory, superlative most preëmptory)

1. Serving to preëmpt.
2. Of, or relating to, a preëmptor.

Quotations

• 1863, Donald Grant Mitchell, My Farm of Edgewood: A Country Book, p105

  But with this, and all other aids — among which I may name the loose preëmptory reflections and suggestions of certain adjoining farmers — I was by no means proud of the appearance of the little herd of twelve or fourteen cows with which operations were to commence.

• 1926, S.S. McClure Co., McClure’s Magazine, p380

  We pulls into Coal Creek late that night, and then he suddenly gets all-fired preëmptory.

• 2003, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Theosophical Quarterly Magazine 1907, p40

  The King sent preëmptory instructions to his Ambassador at Rome, Cardinal D’Estrees, to enter the lists against Molinos and to do everything in his power to ruin him.

Related terms

• preëmpt
• preëmptible
• preëmption
• preëmptioner
• preëmptive
• preëmptively
• preëmptor

References

• preëmptory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 - see page 1128.

Anagrams

• peremptory