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prelusively

  • a word derived from prelude.
    prelude
    noun
    a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
  • a word derived from prelusive.
    prelusive
    adjective
    introductory.

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The nations of the planet, like ships of war manœuvring prelusively to some great engagement, are silently taking up their positions, as it were, for future action and reaction, reciprocally for doing and suffering.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various