单词 | preliminarily |
释义 | preliminarilyadv. In a preliminary manner; by way of introduction; to begin with. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adverb] > as a preliminary or introduction preludiately1593 preludiously1662 preliminary1676 prodromatically1716 preliminarily1721 prefatorily1740 prelusively1833 introductorily1846 proemially1898 preludingly1932 1721 G. Hooper Inq. State Anc. Meas. iv. v. 324 After it has been Preliminarily agreed, that the Hebrew and Phœnician of the first Period was the same. 1768 Woman of Honor II. 29 His reason..for not preliminarily addressing himself to Clara. 1830 M. Faraday in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 120 29 All these matters being preliminarily arranged, the final disposition of the tray and its charge is made. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. viii. 207 So must we..preliminarily do something. 1948 Amer. Jrnl. Archeol. 52 404/1 The areas visited and preliminarily surveyed were the following. 1991 20th Cent. Brit. Hist. 2 117 American concerns and American analysis were preliminarily incorporated into some British socialist writing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1721 |
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