Thesaurus / prefatory

prefatory

How to use prefatory in a sentence

He tried some small prefatory Siege or scalade of Pesth; could not do it; and came his ways home again, as the best course.

The contents of the Epic were described in some prefatory verses, and the number of couplets in each Book was stated.

The foregoing thoughts are prefatory to the much-mooted question of Mr. Lincoln's religious belief.

Unfortunately for my desires, I can only be prefatory in the case of my own.

In April he sends her "an inclosure for Power" to be forwarded immediately—and this was probably the prefatory letter.

THOMAS MOORESTEPHEN GWYNN

The following ballad was first printed by Sir Walter Scott, with prefatory remarks which we have here abridged.

On the intermediate plane, or level, the real business of the passenger prefatory to his journey is transacted.

The Colonel gave a prefatory grunt of depreciation, but he was pulling his blankets out from under the stuff on the sled.

THE MAGNETIC NORTHELIZABETH ROBINS (C. E. RAIMOND)

I had hoped, indeed, that he would have honoured these slight studies by a prefatory note, and he had expressed a wish to do so.

Charles, who had run up to the nursery during dinner to say so, remarked with a prefatory "Lawks" that wonders would never cease.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985