Meanings
adjectivepreambulous (comparative more preambulous, superlative most preambulous)
comparative more preambulous · superlative most preambulous
- obsoleterarePertaining to a preamble; preliminary, preambular.
Now hereby he not onely undermineth the Base of Religion, and destroyeth the principle preambulous unto all belief; but puts upon us the remotest Error from Truth.
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10
Origin
- Late Latinpraeambulum
- Englishpreambulous
From Late Latin praeambulum, praeambulus + -ous.
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