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prefacial, -tial, a. rare.|priːˈfeɪʃ(ɪ)əl|
[ad. med.L. præfātia (see preface n.) + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, of the nature of a preface; prefatory.
1888Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Thro' Long Night iii. vii, That tentative and prefatial way which means potentialities and the hereafter rather than actualities now. 1893Stevenson Vailima Lett. xxix. (1895) 262 Leaving out all the prefacial matter. |