| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Of, relating to, or occurring at the start of something: beginning, inceptive, incipient, initial, initiatory, leadoff. See START. 2. Serving to introduce a subject or person, for example: prefatory, preliminary, preparatory, prolegomenous. See START, WORDS. 3. Before or in preparation for the main matter, action, or business: inductive, prefatory, preliminary, preparatory, prolegomenous. See START.
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