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Definition of Prefatory
1. Adjective. Serving as an introduction or preface.
Definition of Prefatory
1. a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks.
Definition of Prefatory
1. Adjective. introductory, preliminary, serving as a prelude or preface. ¹
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Definition of Prefatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefatory
Literary usage of Prefatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federalist, on the New Constitution by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1857)
"prefatory REMARKS. THE present edition of the Federalist contains all the numbers
of that work as revised by their authors; and it is the only one to which ..."
2. Book-auction Recordsby Frank Karslake by Frank Karslake (1906)
"prefatory NOTES In attempting to add some prefatory notes to the present ...
Similarly, in the prefatory Notes to Volume 2 all my best words appear to have ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"The poem is a combination of allegory and romance; ' and in this prefatory letter
to Raleigh the poet himself explains the plan of the work and iU main ..."
4. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"NOTE TO THE prefatory VERSES, /"T*SHE prefatory Verses affixed to Don Quixote,
in burlesque _|_ imitation of the commendatory sonnets with which it was the ..."
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