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Definition of Precursory
1. Adjective. Warning of future misfortune.
Definition of Precursory
1. a. Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.
2. n. An introduction.
Definition of Precursory
1. Adjective. Pertaining to events that will follow. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a precursor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Precursory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precursory
Literary usage of Precursory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Epilepsy and Other Chronic Convulsive Diseases: Their Causes, Symptoms, and by William Richard Gowers (1901)
"precursory SYMPTOMS.—Beside the immediate warning, attacks in some patients are
preceded for hours or days by symptoms indicative of disturbance of the ..."
2. The Cyclones of the Far East by José Algué (1904)
"INDIRECT precursory SIGNS—THE HURRICANE WAVE AND SWELL. Thus far we have explained
the direct precursory signs of typhoons and shown how a skillful ..."
3. A Theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery by Pierre Cazeaux (1857)
"The term of gestation is most usually announced by a collection of symptoms, to
which the majority of authors have applied the name of the " precursory ..."
4. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1893)
"The convulsion had indeed been clearly foreseen by eminent precursory thinkers
for above a century, and had been emphati- events. cally announced by three ..."
5. Diagnostics of the Fundus Oculi by Edward Leroy Oatman (1920)
"The important retinal vascular changes of the precursory stage frequently escape
observation. They are not prominent and must be diligently sought with the ..."
6. A System of midwifery by Edward Rigby (1851)
"precursory SYMPTOMS.—FIRST CONTRACTIONS.—ACTION OF THE PAINS. ... precursory symptoms.
For some time before the commencement of actual labour, ..."
7. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"... satisfaction enough to yourselves, of that, as a precursory thing, that if
all the Pro- ... precursory ..."
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