prefatory , pref. (abbreviation)

And yet his prefatory note begins, "I wrote these poems."

Then he wrote a prefatory sentence and got up to go to the loo.

Long as the editor cut out some coarse passages and wrote a short prefatory note for the play.

Were there prefatory signals that became more comprehensible after the fact?

(2000), together with a new introduction and many prefatory notes.

MS 16 has very recently had all prefatory matter removed in a rebinding.

In a prefatory note, he writes that Africa "is too large to describe.

I did it in a prefatory note to a book of mine called Tom Sawyer.

Each piece had its own visual environment, and each needed a little prefatory setting up by the players.

On many pages a prefatory paragraph or a concluding group of sentences is full across the page.

Jim's is one of the several spoken dialects called deliberate in a prefatory note.

Subsequent editions of the book added various prefatory and supplementary materials.

The author has already ducked that point in his prefatory disclaimer, so I suppose we must not ask.

The King republished it, with some new prefatory matter, on 25 April 1688.

In a prefatory note to that volume, I wrote:

(Again, a few prefatory remarks might have been useful.

None of the prefatory material lasted too long.

I suppose you will put in plenty of pegs in this prefatory part.

A new prefatory note creeps into his voice.

Her prefatory notes are dry, only now and then lighting up with echoes of "Personal History."

Cavendish also includes a prefatory letter to natural philosophers.

All of these are prefatory and explanatory material.

A Prologue is a prefatory piece of writing.

It seemed the kind of thing that would be done before the raid, a prefatory ritual of sorts.

Hughes' prefatory note for the book explained his intentions in writing the collection: