προϋπεργασία

A. preparation, previous defence of what one is going to say, Lat. praemunitio, as a form of Rhetoric, like προπαρασκευή, Rufinianus 32 (Rhet.Lat.Min. p.46 Halm).
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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