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• v  put into the required condition beforehand
• s  having already been put into a suitable condition
  a surface preconditioned to receive paint
  customers preconditioned to buy a product

• The preconditioned viewers could not swallow that, according to Schwerin's figures, and belief in the advertiser dropped 30%.
• For a weekend trip, the pilot will be preconditioned by eating a low-residue diet (no bulky leaf vegetables, peas, corn or beans, no fat).
• Purpose: Air Force wanted to know whether the human organism can be preconditioned for the peculiar conditions and hazards of space travel.

• precondition

News & Articles

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• NBC cons viewers from the very ‘start’
  Even our national golf championship, once it’s sold to TV’s highest bidder then given TV’s preconditioned deception treatment, becomes a national con job, a sucker-bait enterprise, no regard for or design on anything better than maximizing ad revenue and network promotion. Golf’s a game of honor...
  June 17, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Giga Bokeria in EurasiaNet
  Through its highest officials, the Aquino regime has reiterated its intransigent position that the revolutionary movement must be destroyed militarily and that the resumption of talks must be preconditioned by the immediate silencing or... Jose Maria Sison http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Sison&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEW6ztYphEviZQPgqcY0DAfzQ_YvA ABS CBN News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx%3FStoryId%3D106661&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG8N_xxjAFxUFVvGWicxMIY8LHHrQ Jan 23, 2008 76815 103796 preconditioned Not a single military force has the right to be on Georgia's territory without Georgia's consent," Bokeria told RFE/RL. "This is a basic principle of international law -- preconditioned by the principle of sovereignty."
• Oscar Peterson in Wall Street Journal
  Only when it was absolutely necessary, Oscar Peterson wrote, would he go on stage before a concert to check out the piano, because doing so "might lead to preconditioned ideas, and they can in turn interfere with the creative process so essential to...