Potted

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Adjective meaning "prepared in advance" first used in a published work by L. Susan Stebbing in her Pelican classic Thinking to some purpose (1939), where "potted thinking" is defined as "a compressed statement to save us the trouble of thinking".


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potted (adj.)

of meat, "preserved in a pot," 1640s, past-participle adjective from pot (v.). Of a plant, from 1718. In the figurative sense of "put into a short, condensed form," 1866.