Prefatory Definition

prĕfə-tôrē
adjective
Of, like, or serving as a preface; introductory.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Prefatory

  • 1670s, from Medieval Latin *praefator +"Ž -ory (“agent"), from Medieval Latin prefatia (whence preface), for classical Latin praefatio (“a saying beforehand") - see preface for details.

    From Wiktionary

  • Note that this is borrowed from Latin, not derived in English from preface, as in occasional misspelling *prefecatory.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin praefātus past participle of praefārī to say before preface

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Prefatory Sentence Examples

  • The prefatory note there may come from a Hebrew MS., but perhaps refers to chapter i.

  • It was declared in a prefatory note to the volume that the authors were responsible only for their respective articles, but some of these were deemed so destructive that many people banned the whole book, and a noisy demand, led by Samuel Wilberforce, then bishop of Oxford, called on the headmaster of Rugby to dissociate himself from his comrades.

  • Specimens of Fowler's verses were published in 1803 by John Leyden in his Scottish Descriptive Poems. Fowler contributed a prefatory sonnet to James VI.'s Furies; and James, in return, commended, in verse, Fowler's Triumphs.

  • The last ten years of his life were passed in complete retirement at Brantwood, in the loving care of the Severn family, to whom the estate was transferred, with occasional visits from friends, but with no sustained work beyond correspondence, the revision of his works, and a few notes and prefatory words to the books of others.

  • This event brings us to one of the most interesting periods of Persian history, any account of which must be defective without a prefatory sketch of Ismail Sufi.

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