præfatory

Adjective

 * 1) * 1846, David Dundas Scott and Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigné, History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (Blackie and Son), volume II, book XII, page 671:
 * As a concluding Note for this volume, I may introduce the following curious one from M. Genin’s præfatory Notice:
 * As a concluding Note for this volume, I may introduce the following curious one from M. Genin’s præfatory Notice: