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Prepared

adjective

1.

Made ready or fit or suitable beforehand. "Be prepared for emergencies" Antonym: unprepared.

2.

Having made preparations. Synonyms: disposed, fain, inclined.

3.

Equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources. "Equipped to be a scholar"

Prepare

verb

(past & past part. prepared; pres. part. preparing)

1.

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc. Synonyms: fix, gear up, ready, set, set up. "Prepare for war" , "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"

2.

Prepare for eating by applying heat. Synonyms: cook, fix, make, ready. "Can you make me an omelette?" , "Fix breakfast for the guests, please"

3.

To prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery. "Prepare a speech"

4.

Arrange by systematic planning and united effort. Synonyms: devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize. "Organize a strike" , "Devise a plan to take over the director's office"

5.

Educate for a future role or function. Synonyms: groom, train. "The prince was prepared to become King one day" , "They trained him to be a warrior"

6.

Create by training and teaching. Synonyms: develop, educate, train. "We develop the leaders for the future"

7.

Lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord.

8.

Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession. Synonym: train. "He trained as a legal aid"

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"Prepared" Quotes from Famous Books

... fundamental things: that while a woman had more independence here than in any other part of the world, she was expected to contribute as much as a man—not in the same way, it is true, but to the same degree; that people who fought the frontier had to be prepared to meet any emergency; that the person who wasn't willing to try anything once wasn't equipped to be a settler. I'd try ...

— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl

... not selfish in this matter because she had planned to be, but simply because it had never occurred to her to be otherwise, which is one of the misfortunes that come to people who are educated in a selfish atmosphere. Ruth Erskine had come to this meeting fully prepared to enjoy it. Dr. Cuyler was a star of sufficient magnitude to attract her. During her frequent visits to New York she had heard much of but had never seen him. The people whom she visited were too elegant in their views and practices to have much in common with the church which was ...

— Four Girls at Chautauqua • Pansy

... of the "Sketches of Switzerland," leaves very little for the author to say in addition. The reader will be prepared to meet with a long digression, that touches on the situation and interests of another country, and it is probable he will understand the author's motive for thus embracing matter that is not strictly connected with the principal subject ...

— A Residence in France - With An Excursion Up The Rhine, And A Second Visit To Switzerland • J. Fenimore Cooper

... who have attended my lectures more regularly than others— and I am sorry there are not more of them—will do me the justice to remember that I have put forward no theory of writing which I was not prepared to illustrate in practice from my own work. My colleague, so far as I can discover, makes one single attempt at practical assistance; and even that is a minor plagiarism from one of my own lectures. He makes a good deal of play with what ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 1st, 1920 • Various

... thus that the nation was formed and prepared by martyrdom for the glorious resurrection, the greater future kept in store for it by Providence; the people all the while remaining ...

— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

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