单词 | preambulatory |
释义 | preambulatoryadj. Of the nature of a preamble; = preambular adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [adjective] > prologue or introduction proemial1447 preambulatory1608 prefatory1710 prolegomenous1749 prefatorial1757 prolegomenary1846 prefatiala1848 prooemiac1850 prolegomenal1859 1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter Pref. sig. A A Preambulatory Epistle vnto P.R. 1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 551 To which, without any Preambulatory Ambages, I answer. 1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World III. i. 2 The continued History of my Life needs no preambulatory Discourses to render it Charming. 1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 109 Before the Circuit Court; i.e. (as explained in the preambulatory part of this section) ‘the Circuit Court of Justiciary by appeal’. 1875 Ladies' Repository Feb. 171/2 Mrs. M. M. Brown..read, as a part of the report, a preambulatory address to the women of America. 1934 Sci. Monthly Oct. 313/2 The foregoing pages are..in the nature of a preambulatory survey—a sort of preliminary scientific sniff. 1991 Man 26 162/1 Spelling errors and syntactical mistakes..frequently occur, and few people waste much time over them, particularly in the context of a preambulatory benediction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1608 |
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