preparative

But the preparative for a public appearance is not yet complete.

Every thing that met the eye in Paris was a preparative for war.

Worming is generally resorted to as a preparative for serving.

This action is also a preparative to a renewal of the gracious experience.

May not this stage of being then be only an introduction to a preparative for another?

Holy living is the best, the only, preparative for holy dying.

And their love to you is as great a preparative to your success.

Is this, my dear, preparative to the conversation you led me to expect in the dining-room?

When a "Preparative" flag was hoisted with a signal it denoted that the order was not to be immediately obeyed.

At that instant the slaves appeared, bearing a tray covered with the first preparative initia of the feast.