Word Meanings - IMPREPARATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of preparation. Hooker.

PREPARATION
The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock.
HOOKER
1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker.
NONPREPARATION
Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.