The speaker made some prefatory remarks.
Each chapter in the book has a prefatory quotation.
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First Known Use: 1675
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearbeginning, introductory, precursory, prelim, preliminary, preparatory, primary;
: included at the beginning of a book, speech, etc., as an introduction
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