Adjective : prefatory explanations. From Dictionary.com.
"Worn out by what was really never life to him," is a prefatorial phrase I recall. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Up to 1940, when his writings held many gifts of my help, he found satisfaction in prefatorial thanks-paying. From Wordnik.com. [Taking His Measure] Reference
As a celebrated milestone in the development of British Romanticism, Wordsworth's prefatorial success lay in his proposal of a new artistic mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted Britain in the 1970s] Reference
Thirdly, and lastly, in this prefatorial say, there is to be considered that inevitable defeator of all printed secrets -- impatience. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
The man who would coolly appropriate some discoveries of others under cloak of a mere prefatorial reference was perhaps an expounder rather than an innovator, and had, it is shrewdly suspected, not much of his own to offer. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
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