præfatory

A form of prefatory — Serving as a preface or prelude; introductory, preliminary.

Meanings

adjectivepræfatory (comparative more præfatory, superlative most præfatory)

comparative more præfatory · superlative most præfatory

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of prefatory.

    As a concluding Note for this volume, I may introduce the following curious one from M. Genin’s præfatory Notice: […]

    1846, David Dundas Scott and Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigné, History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (Blackie and Son), volume II, book XII, page 671
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