preparative

Our joy on earthour religionwhen it is a fruit of the Spirit, is at once a preparative and a prelude to the joys of heaven.

If I were to elongate my phiz by way of preparative for a sigh, she would split her little sides with laughing at me.

He is the first tincture and rudiment of a writer, dipped as yet in the preparative blue, like an almanac well-willer.

Holy living is the best, the only, preparative for holy dying.