introductory(BEGINNING)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

First and firstly
advance guard
at first blushidiom
at firstidiom
begin
blush
debut
former
from the word goidiom
front end
in the first/second placeidiom
inaugural
initial
maiden
original
originally
primary
proto-
prototypical
starter
word

Examples of prefatory

prefatory
Entering the boundaries of the book, readers had to pass through the threshold of the prefatory material before reaching the work itself.
More important, the letter occurs in a new context - a public journal - among a new set of co-texts - a prefatory letter and footnotes.
This theme is announced unmistakably by all the prefatory letters which various humanists appended to the 1517 and 1518 editions of the text.
Moreover, a common practice of the time was for authors to introduce their printed plays with a prefatory statement.
A final prefatory note: just as the three motivations show no linear trend, so racial reorganization as a whole need not tend in one direction.
A possible answer lies in the extensive prefatory material included in the volume.
But its scope, in terms of its forces, its length, and its vision, makes all of those works seem to be prefatory sketches.
Every text within the database is reproduced in full, including all prefatory matter and annotations.
The publication in journal form and the prefatory letter and footnotes transform the main text itself.
Minor redundancies of this sort only would have enhanced the independence and usefulness of the separate prefatory comments for each score.
Prefatory material is followed by five chapters, each cohesive and self-contained but very much part of the whole.
Authorial and editorial notes and prefatory and end matter can be included in or excluded from a search or can be searched exclusively.
Greenblatt has repeatedly denied, in prefatory remarks to many of his works, that there is any theoretical program to his method.
They do so, generally, in the design of the prefatory (turn-initial) components /features of the turn in which they introduce the new topic (arrowed in the following fragments).
Casken would point to his own prefatory five-line poem for an understanding of the piece.
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