Preface; introduction; preliminary observations to a book or writing.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
To preface. [Not used.]
To preface.
1. The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.
2. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.
Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.
In chronology, the lunar equation or addition of a day, necessary to prevent the new moon from happening a day too soon.
The addition of a day to the lunar calendar.
Precursor Roget’s Thesaurus §64
N. precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor, forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome|, prodromos, prodromus, outrider, leader, bellwether, herald, harbinger, foreboding, dawn, avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker, prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction, heading, frontispiece, groundwork, preparation, overture, exordium, symphony, premises, prefigurement, omen
Adj. precursory, prelusive, prelusory, preludious, proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary, precedent
Phr. "a precedent embalms a principle"
No Bible verses found for "Proem".