pregage

— by oath pregaged to the pope

— At the outset, however, he either failed utterly to pregage the possibilities of the method, or else through modesty declined to let his imagination take wings; for we find him, in an interview published in McClure's Magazine in 1897, when a considerable measure of success had been attained, declaring that it would be possible by the perfection of his method to send signals to a distance of at least twenty miles.

— removes parts one at a time from the bottom of the loading tray and cycles them to a probe station for a pregage check to ensure that they are within the required size.