introductory
adjective
serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning.
introductive
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a variation of
introductory.
Example Sentences
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The one darkness is introductive of the other; nay, they cannot be long without one another.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
This Act, in a commercial view, they think introductive of monopolies, and tending to bring on them the extensive evils thence arising.
From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake
Now, this were not so grievous, if it were not a step to the death to come, and a degree of it introductive to it.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
The feeling of the average reader of the Bible is decidedly in favor of the King James translation of the Bible, with the introductive address to the king omitted.
From Praying for Money by Russell H. Conwell
