pre-test, try out in advance; feel/search/grope out beforehand
Latin word, found 16 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.339: Calliope querulas praetemptat pollice chordas,
Ovid, Ibis 260: Praetemptes baculo luminis orbus iter .
Tacitus, Agricola 20.2: … u multus in agmine, laudare modestiam, disiectos coërcere; loca castris ipse capere, aestuaria ac silvas ipse praetemptare; et nihil interim apud hostis quietum pati, quo minus subitis excursibus popularetur; atque ubi satis terruer …
All forms of praetempto