prelusive

During an entire generation they furnished the arena for the prelusive strife of that war.

The first three lectures were designed to be preparatory and prelusive.

I have described the gorgeousness of my expectations in those early days of my prelusive acquaintance with German literature.

We hope to find that the last essay, upon the "Moral Ideal," is prelusive to another effort in this direction.

In prelusive ways, it has wrought in the world from its foundation, and since the fall of man.