Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Going before; preceding; previous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Preceding; going before; introductory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Preceding; going before;
introductory .
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Examples
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You do still see it though; classic Epic Fantasy (or Epic SF, for that matter), with its wandering PoV — pseudo-omniscient, multiple third person, or some hamfisted hybrid of the two — seems to have inherited that preambulatory approach, and where it lays out the equilibrium of the worldscape it seems to do so even more distinctly.
Archive 2009-04-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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You do still see it though; classic Epic Fantasy (or Epic SF, for that matter), with its wandering PoV — pseudo-omniscient, multiple third person, or some hamfisted hybrid of the two — seems to have inherited that preambulatory approach, and where it lays out the equilibrium of the worldscape it seems to do so even more distinctly.
On Prologues Hal Duncan 2009
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The joke is that this is the usual preambulatory statement to something subtly racist or anti-semitic.
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Personality was shaped by socioenvironmental influences, and psychiatry had to emphasize as well the problems of the “ambulatory ill and the preambulatory ill those whose probability of breakdown is high.”
The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994
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Personality was shaped by socioenvironmental influences, and psychiatry had to emphasize as well the problems of the “ambulatory ill and the preambulatory ill those whose probability of breakdown is high.”
The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994
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Honoré hesitated, for he wanted to make a few preambulatory remarks before coming to his proposal, but as he could hit upon nothing, he made up his mind suddenly.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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Nothing in the plain text of the public use portion of the 5th Amendment requires that all takings be for public use — it’s only a sort of preambulatory phrase that says takings for such use must be compensated.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More from Richard Epstein on the Sotomayor Nomination, 2009
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Nothing in the plain text of the public use portion of the 5th Amendment requires that all takings be for public use — it’s only a sort of preambulatory phrase that says takings for such use must be compensated.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More from Richard Epstein on the Sotomayor Nomination, 2009
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Nothing in the plain text of the public use portion of the 5th Amendment requires that all takings be for public use — it’s only a sort of preambulatory phrase that says takings for such use must be compensated.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More from Richard Epstein on the Sotomayor Nomination, 2009
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