preparatory
adjective
serving or designed to prepare.
preparatorily
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a word derived from
preparatory.
Example Sentences
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‘Is everybody here?’ he asks preparatorily over his shoulder to the passengers within.
From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy
His eyes followed a seam on the paper overhead 64 back and forth, before halting preparatorily.
From The Dominant Dollar by Lester Ralph
The warrior maid wished once more to examine the important position, preparatorily to the Monday attack.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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
