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/prɪlˈɪmənˌɛri/ /prilˈɪmənˌɛri/ Listen

Preliminary

adjective

Denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important; designed to orient or acquaint with a situation before proceeding.

noun

(pl. preliminaries)

A minor match preceding the main event. Synonym: prelim.

Something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows. Synonyms: overture, prelude. "Drinks were the overture to dinner"

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"Preliminary" Quotes from Famous Books

... swell my book with long quotations from what is in every body's hands, and I believe there are few prose compositions in the English language that are read with more delight, or are more impressed upon the memory, than that preliminary discourse. One of its excellencies has always struck me with peculiar admiration: I mean the perspicuity with which he has expressed abstract scientifick notions. As an instance of this, I shall quote the following ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell

... and a glass was induced to reconsider his decision. Captain Brisket, waving farewells from the quay as they embarked on the ferryboat later on in the afternoon, bore in his pocket the cards of all three gentlemen, together with a commission entrusting him with the preliminary negotiations for the purchase of the ...

— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... only a preliminary examination, and I confess that, so far, he comes well out of it, for imagination can hardly understand such a depth of deceit. I watched him closely the whole time, and I could discover no sign ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - DERUES • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... will be surprised to learn that I am in England, and that I am again out of harness—unless you should have seen the latter in the papers. Rio Janeiro may do for monkeys, but it won't do for me. Having resigned the appointment I have returned here, as a preliminary step to finding another vent for my energies; in other words, another milch cow for my sustenance. I knew nothing whatever of your husband's death till two days ago; so that any letter from you on the subject, at the time it became known, ...

— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy

... these various species is scarcely greater than that between an Englishman and a Russian, a Japanese and a European. In these preliminary remarks, therefore, we will confine ourselves to what actually lies within the range of our eyes, refusing the aid of hypothesis, be this never so probable or so imperious. We shall mention no facts that are not susceptible of immediate proof; and of such facts we will only rapidly refer ...

— The Life of the Bee • Maurice Maeterlinck

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