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Definition of Preparatory
1. Adjective. Preceding and preparing for something. "Preparatory steps"
Similar to: Preceding
Derivative terms: Prepare, Prepare, Prepare, Prepare, Prepare, Prepare, Prepare, Propaedeutic, Propaedeutics
Definition of Preparatory
1. a. 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.
Definition of Preparatory
1. Adjective. of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative ¹
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Definition of Preparatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preparatory
Literary usage of Preparatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"THE preparatory SCHOOL. To nearly every master in a preparatory school the question
must at some time or other have presented itself, whether the work in ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1907)
"The preparatory School and the Boy JH ATKINSON, BLAIR ACADEMY, BLAIRSTOWN, NJ |Na
recent communication to the New York Times, President Thwing says : " The ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The appeal is from an order of the circuit Judge refusing the writ, on the ground
that attendance as a student In a preparatory class at Clemson College ..."
4. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1907)
"ADMISSION TO THE preparatory COURSE OF GALLAUDET COLLEGE IN 1909. [NB Nothing in
this statement affects the requirements for 1908, which have been already ..."
5. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"He made many preparatory reactions on the way to his final reaction of jumping
up on you; and these preparatory reactions were, of course, responses to the ..."
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