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Can I be more preparatively condescending?—How happy, I'll warrant, if I may meet him in a kind and forgiving humour!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel

Nobody was near enough to hear their words, the nearest persons being two workmen just outside, who were bringing their tools up from the vault preparatively to closing it.

From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Hardy, Thomas

It is a word used preparatively, "to connect words or sentences in construction, and to show the dependence of the terms so connected."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold