Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a preparative manner; by way of preparation.
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- adverb By way of preparation.
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- adverb By way of
preparation .
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Examples
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It approaches the hysterical, has become very corrosive — even to science itself, is socially destructive, and impedes a rational and systematic approach to preparatively anticipating any future problems.
Thompson, Hardy, Hemp and the Snows of Kilimanjaro « Climate Audit 2006
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Diels and Kurt Alder shared the Nobel Prize for discovering the preparatively very useful diene synthesis.
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Thus they continued to do for a period of ten more days; and after the twenty days had passed, they conducted the damsel into the bath, preparatively to my being introduced to her as her husband.
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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.
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884
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Next year he was made to work at a stocking-loom, preparatively to his learning the business of a hosier; but his mother, seeing the reluctance with which he engaged in an employment so ill-suited to his temper and abilities, prevailed on his father, though not without much difficulty, to fix him in the office of Messrs. Coldham and Endfield, attorneys in Nottingham.
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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He was determined to reduce the place preparatively to more important operations.
History of the United Netherlands, 1595 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He was determined to reduce the place preparatively to more important operations.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He was determined to reduce the place preparatively to more important operations.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He was determined to reduce the place preparatively to more important operations.
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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In 1950 Otto Diels and Kurt Alder shared the Nobel Prize for discovering the preparatively very useful diene synthesis.
Planet Atheism 2009
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