| 释义 |
prefatory, a.|ˈprɛfətərɪ|
[f. L. type *præfātōri-us, f. *præfātor prefator: see -ory2.]
Of the nature of a preface; introductory, preliminary.
1675Ogilby Brit. Pref. 2 Hitherto of the Undertaking..as Præfatory to the..Business. 1710Shaftesbury Charact. (1737) I. iii. iii. 329 The anticipating Manner of prefatory Discourse is too well known. 1850Grote Greece ii. lx. VII. 445 Gylippus sent the fleet out with the usual prefatory harangue. 1856Miss Mulock J. Halifax xxx, Prefatory to the customary toast. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxvii. 380, The Prefatory Note which precedes the volume.
Hence ˈprefatorily adv., in a prefatory manner; as, or by way of, preface.
1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. Pref. 4 But I think, the hints you have given me, should also prefatorily be given to the public. 1903C. Maude Haymarket Theatre 8 This, I have already said prefatorily, is not to be regarded as a serious history. |