Word Meanings - PREFATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREFATORY)

• Introductory
• Prefatory
• initiatory
• commendatory
• precursory
• preliminary
• preparatory
• Precursory
• Prevenient
• antecedent
• introductory
• prefatory
• prior
• premonitory
• prognosticative
• Preliminary

Related words: (words related to PREFATORY)

• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• 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.
• INITIATORY
  1. Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step. Bp. Hall. 2. Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• 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;
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• INTRODUCTORY
  Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• COMMENDATORY
  1. Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. "Commendatory verses." Pope. 2. Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop. Burke. Commendatory prayer , a prayer read over the dying. "The
• ANTECEDENTLY
  Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.
• PREMONITORY
  Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.
• PRECURSORY
  Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.
• PREVENIENT
  Going before; preceding; hence, preventive. "Prevenient grace descending." Milton.
• PRIORY
  A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the
• PRIORLY
  Previously. Geddes.
• PREPARATORY
  Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
• PRIOR
  Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used (more info) compar. corresponding to primus first, and pro for. See Former, and
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• RECOMMENDATORY
  Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.
• APRIORITY
  The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.