prefatorial

As a celebrated milestone in the development of British Romanticism, Wordsworth's prefatorial success lay in his proposal of a new artistic mechanism.

Haunted Britain in the 1970s 2005

Up to 1940, when his writings held many gifts of my help, he found satisfaction in prefatorial thanks-paying.

Taking His Measure Wain, John 1987

"Worn out by what was really never life to him," is a prefatorial phrase I recall.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

The man who would coolly appropriate some discoveries of others under cloak of a mere prefatorial reference was perhaps an expounder rather than an innovator, and had, it is shrewdly suspected, not much of his own to offer.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904

Thirdly, and lastly, in this prefatorial say, there is to be considered that inevitable defeator of all printed secrets -- impatience.

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849