Definition of Prefatorial

1. Adjective. Serving as an introduction or preface.

Exact synonyms: Introductory, Prefatory
Similar to: Preceding
Derivative terms: Introduce, Preface

Definition of Prefatorial

1. a. Prefatory.

Definition of Prefatorial

1. Adjective. prefatory ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefatorial

prefaced
prefaceless
prefacer
prefacers
prefaces
prefacing
prefactor
prefactors
prefade
prefaded
prefades
prefading
prefard
prefascist
prefatigued
prefatorial (current term)
prefatorily
prefatory
prefect
prefectorial
prefects
prefectship
prefectships
prefectural
prefecture
prefectures
prefecundation
prefeminism
prefeminist
prefer

Literary usage of Prefatorial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of President Edwards ...: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"To give but few prefatorial admonitions about the style and method. ... What is prefatorial, not to write in a distinct preface or introduction, ..."

2. The Life of President Edwards by Sereno Edwards Dwight (1830)
"To give but few prefatorial admonitions about the style and method. ... What is prefatorial, not to write in a distinct preface, or introduction, ..."

3. The Life of President Edwards by Sereno Edwards Dwight (1830)
"To give but few prefatorial admonitions about the style and method. ... What is prefatorial, not to write in a distinct preface or introduction, ..."

4. The Organ: Writings and Other Utterances on Its Structure, History, Procural by John Watson Warman (1898)
"Some Further Information on Publications of the present kind will often be found in such works themselves, both in their prefatorial or other Extraneous ..."

5. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"This prefatorial dissertation is long, and succeeded by several prayers interspersed with poetical pieces. About the centre of the volume is a page with a ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1857)
"The prefatorial matter is chiefly bibliographical ; Mr. Singer has added references to the quotations, and useful foot-notes. The book is printed in a style ..."

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