Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Precursory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preceding as a herald; prognosticative; predictive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Preceding; introductory; precursory.
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- adjective Preceding;
introductory ;precursory .
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Examples
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Observing the results, remembering the precursive actions and emotions, and duplicating them to the best of our ability until we figure out our "combination", always remembering that it changes slightly every day.
Seducing Ourselves Steven Barnes 2008
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The exercise was designed not only to elicit a sense of awe and wonder, but also to connect students to the precursive roots of the medium.
Archive 2008-09-01 The Year in Pictures 2008
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If you want to design and build a FTL ship, are you supporting and promoting whatever technological advancements you consider precursive to this?
What if you knew you could not fail? Steven Barnes 2008
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The exercise was designed not only to elicit a sense of awe and wonder, but also to connect students to the precursive roots of the medium.
Abelardo Morell The Year in Pictures 2008
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This relates to the question of “Awakening” which is important to the process of becoming an Adult, and certainly precursive to Enlightenment.
Lucidity and focus Steven Barnes 2007
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This relates to the question of “Awakening” which is important to the process of becoming an Adult, and certainly precursive to Enlightenment.
Archive 2007-11-01 Steven Barnes 2007
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Wherever a desired result is achieved by the co-operation of many independent persons, its existence as a fact is a pure consequence of the precursive faith in one another of those immediately concerned.
Pragmatic Arguments for Belief in God Jordan, Jeff 2004
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Was this precursive of the resurrection of the Abomination?
The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989
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A half-haze, precursive of the twilight, lent scenic softness to the forms of old men puffing their pipes before the doors, a maiden listlessly strolling on the sward, a swarm of children playing near the road, a distant toiler making his way home, bearing his scythe.
The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair
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Now the amoeboid state is a notable phenomenon throughout the monads as precursive of striking change.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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