preprandial
/priːˈprandɪəl
/adjective
1 formal or humorous Done or taken before dinner or lunch: a preprandial glass of sherry...
- This falls at lunchtime, when I allow myself a preprandial glass of wine and read a chapter of an unsuitable book.
- The preprandial pickles are splendid and so are the popadoms with them.
- The kitchen was invaded by preprandial politics; people thinking ten things but keeping silent.
1.1 Medicine Occurring or done before a meal.Involving 335 subjects with type 1 diabetes, the study reveals that most patients prefer inhaled insulin before meals to the usual preprandial shots....
- One preprandial blood sample was collected daily.
- Each day of the 10-day trial, preprandial blood samples were collected at 0845 h, prior to the first meal.
Origin
Early 19th century: from pre- 'before' + Latin prandium 'a meal' + -al.
- abiogenic
- abiogenically
- abiogenist
- abiogenous
- abiologic
- abiological
- abiologically
- abiology
- abiotic
- abiotically
- abiotrophy
- Abipon
- Abipone
- Abiponian
- Abipón
- Abiquiu
- a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- abirritant
- a bit
- a bite at the cherry
- a bit much
- a bit of all right
- a bit of a ——
- a bitter pill (to swallow)
- a bit thick