preambulous

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin praeambulum, praeambulus +‎ -ous.

Adjective[edit]

preambulous (comparative more preambulous, superlative most preambulous)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Pertaining to a preamble; preliminary, preambular.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10:
      Now hereby he not onely undermineth the Base of Religion, and destroyeth the principle preambulous unto all belief; but puts upon us the remotest Error from Truth.