preparativelyadv.

1602 A. Copley Another Let. to Dis-iesuited Kinseman 35 The execution of those their two plots, which till then they caried but onely in dissigne, and but preparatiuely as farre as they durst for feare of him.

1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (i. 8) 71 Aliens, he thinks, may be wonne; preparatiuely at least, to thinke well of that doctrine.

1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague 6 That those Pestilential fumes be first embryonately or preparatively formed in a close thick or standing air.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xi. 47 Can I be more preparatively condescending?

1799 C. Tweedie Conduct Great Brit. Vindicated iv. 311 A few peaceable inhabitants whose courage and loyalty were preparatively sapped by the insidious arts of their subtle and treacherous foe.

1855 Harper's Mag. June 99/1 I was cutting folios preparatively, and inwardly execrating my cousin.

1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xlvii At noon..preparatively preceded by Mr. Putney Giles.., the guardians..waited on Lothair.

1909 H. James Wings of Dove (ed. 2) Pref. p. xi Preparatively and, as it were, yearningly..one began, in the event, with the outer ring, approaching the centre thus by narrowing circumvallations.

1981 P. Sykes Guidebk. to Mechanism in Org. Chem. (ed. 5) ix. 258 Debromination is rarely a preparatively useful reaction as the 1,2-dibromide starting material has usually been prepared by adding bromine to the product alkene!

1999 Canad. Jrnl. Chem. (Nexis) 77 113 The formation of the N-alkylated 1,5-dithiocins 4a, 17a, 17b with accompanying loss of -COOH or -COOMe was observed, in preparatively useful yields.