Word Meanings - PRELUSORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Introductory; prelusive. Bacon.

PREVIOUSNESS
The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
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.
PRELUSORY
Introductory; prelusive. Bacon.
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;
ANTECEDENTLY
Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.
PREVIOUSLY
Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
PRECURSIVE
Preceding; introductory; precursory. "A deep precursive sound." Coleridge.
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.
PREVIOUS
Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under