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Definition of Preoption
1. n. Right of first choice.
Definition of Preoption
1. Noun. The right of first choice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preoption
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preoption
Literary usage of Preoption
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographia Borealis; Or Lives of Distinguished Northerns, by Hartley Coleridge (1833)
"... should have preoption of chambers or livings, over a Doctor of Divinity ranking
only 49. Bentley generally contended for priority of degree; alleging, ..."
2. The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most by Hartley Coleridge (1836)
"... should have preoption of chambers or livings, over a Doctor of Divinity rank,
ing only 49. Bentley generally contended for priority of degree; alleging, ..."
3. American Journal of Education by Barnard (1882)
"... the words of the statute do, in our disinterested opinion, clearly define the
highest graduate, not the senior member, as having the right of preoption. ..."
4. Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to by Peter Mark Roget (1858)
"... eclecticism, preference, predilection, preoption, discretion. 610. Absence of
Choice, see Necessity (601). REJECTION, refusal, see (764) ; declining, ..."
5. Cambridge Essays by University of Cambridge (1858)
"... he ought to be permitted to do so in every case ; provided that he gives up
his right of preoption to any office or benefice in the college gift. ..."
6. Lives of Northern Worthies by Hartley Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852)
"... a Master of Arts, ranking fifty in the list of fellows, should have preoption
of chambers or livings over a Doctor of Divinity ranking only forty-nine. ..."
7. Lives of Northern Worthies by Hartley Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852)
"... the words of the statute do, in our disinterested opinion, clearly define the
highest graduate, not the senior member, as having the right of preoption. ..."
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