Lexicographical Neighbors of Preadopted
Literary usage of Preadopted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Such as " the nothing but an empty strain Of rhet'ric, insignificant, and vain—
The choosing not to see, of any theme, More than may suit his preadopted ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"... and to endeavour to solve their origin afterwards, instead of receiving them
in a shape and amount adjusted to demonstrate some preadopted theory. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D., Now Fully Collected, with Selections from by Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Dugald Stewart (1863)
"... to draw from thence his doctrines and their proof, each dogmatic speculator
looked only into consciousness, there to discover his preadopted opinions. ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D., Now Fully Collected, with Selections from by Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Dugald Stewart (1863)
"... to draw from thence his doctrines and their proof, each dogmatic speculator
looked only into consciousness, there to discover his preadopted opinions. ..."
5. Miscellaneous Poems by John Byrom (1773)
"... of any Theme, " More than may fuit his preadopted Scheme " The puffing
over .what he (hould confute, " With Matters foreign to the main Dilute" And ..."
6. Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton, Bart by William Hamilton (1853)
"... on the one hand, quietly to supersede the data of consciousness, so often as
these did not fall in with their preadopted opinions; and on the other, ..."
7. Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton, Bart by William Hamilton (1860)
"... on the one hand, quietly to supersede the data of consciousness, so often as
these did not fall in with their preadopted opinions; and on the other, ..."
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