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predeclare

verb

Etymology

From pre- + declare.

  1. derived from dēclārō — “to make clear”
  2. derived from declarer
  3. inherited from declaren
  4. prefixed as predeclare — “pre + declare”

Definitions

  1. To declare or announce beforehand.

    • their indefeasible power of predeclaring the eternal destiny of every living layman

  2. To declare some source code element (such as a class) in advance of its full description,…

    To declare some source code element (such as a class) in advance of its full description, so that other preceding parts of the code can refer to it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for predeclare. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA