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Word Meanings - PRECLUSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering. -- Pre*clu"sive*ly, adv.

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  • PRECLUSIVE
    Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering. -- Pre*clu"sive*ly, adv.
  • PROEMIAL
    Introductory; prefatory; preliminary. Hammond.
  • ANTECEDENT
    1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
  • PREFATORY
    Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks. That prefatory addition to the Creed. Dryden.
  • PRELIMINARY
    Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations. Syn. -- Introductory; preparatory;
  • INTRODUCTORY
    Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
  • ANTECEDENTLY
    Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.
  • PREVENIENT
    Going before; preceding; hence, preventive. "Prevenient grace descending." Milton.
  • INITIATIVE
    Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

 

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