preparatory
adjective
serving or designed to prepare.
preparatorily
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a word derived from
preparatory.
Example Sentences
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The King's Advocate pulled out a puce-coloured bandanna, and waved it abroad preparatorily to blowing his nose.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
The pad, first dipped into the pounce, is rubbed preparatorily upon some paper to remove the superfluous powder, and then upon the actual work.
From Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie
To that end I read preparatorily, yesterday, what account I could find of it in all the botanical books in the house.
From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
The three latter of these our Lord gives to his disciples in this blessed sermon on the Mount, preparatorily, and, as Donne rightly goes on to observe, presupposing faith as the ground and root.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
His eyes followed a seam on the paper overhead 64 back and forth, before halting preparatorily.
From The Dominant Dollar by Lester Ralph
