Definition of "pretested" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of pretest. (verb)

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• "As part of this exploration, I reveal phenomena that occurred in actual laboratory experiments, intentionally designed and then formally approved by the University of Arizona Human Subjects Committee—as well as exploratory investigations in the early stages of experimental design where we scientists pretested ourselves—that also speak to this emerging reality."
• "For example, a world where, recently, hundreds of students at UC Berkeley pretested against the 81 percent potential increase in their four-year tuition?"
• "However, SyFy was a name generated internally and pretested at the channel before our involvement. '"