prefatory
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7.6
- adjective
- /ˈprɛfətɔri/
:
prefacial
- "The new schoolhouse version included all of these documents (aside from the prefatory document) and the school board resolution allowing the commandments to be displayed."
- a prefatory note
- a prefatory remark
- a prefatory comment
Examples
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First, however, I wish to make one prefatory remark regarding this cultural borrowing process that I have been describing.
Academic text (1990) -
In all three of the female-authored lives explored here, brief and prefatory attention is given to the subjects.
Academic text (2007) -
There was a brief prefatory explanation.
Fiction book (1991) -
Three brief prefatory notes: That preferences are given, by race, sex, and national origin, is a fact not here at issue.
Academic text (1998) -
Paging ahead, however, one finds that the prefatory matter includes a "note to the third edition" dated April 13, 1848.
Academic text (2012) -
An additional observation about Solove and Hartzog's work bears a prefatory note.
Academic text (2016) -
The legislative subcommittee, however, inserted the prefatory language "in order to achieve the purpose of the preceding paragraph" into the beginning of the second paragraph.
Academic text (2016) -
By documenting the source of her poetic narrative in a prefatory note to the poem, Hemans lends authority to her rendering of the event.
Academic text (1998) -
Matthew's Book of Fate makes particular use of the same devices that animate the prefatory materials of his Chronica Majora—the volvelle and cityscapes.
Academic text (1999) -
The author included a prefatory note to help readers understand the context of the story.
Synonyms
325
5.2
Happening before a main event to prepare for it
35
3.9
About the first part that gives basic facts to beginners
1
8.9
About the introduction at the start of a document or speech
Introducing a book or text by explaining its purpose
Serving as a short introduction before the main text
That introduces the purpose and background at the start of a document or speech
Antonyms
How Introductory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prefatory comes from the word preface, which has the part pre- meaning 'before' and an old root meaning 'to speak'. So a prefatory remark or chapter is something said or written 'before' the main part, like an introduction.