I.a fortifying or strengthening beforehand.
I. In gen., Ambros. de Isaac et Anim. 4, 37.—
II. Trop., rhet. t. t., = πρὀ παρασκευή, of an orator, who prepares the minds of his hearers for what he has further to say, a preparation, premunition: “sine ullā praemunitione orationis,” Cic. de Or. 2, 75, 304; 3, 53, 204; Quint. 9, 2, 17.