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- Preliminary - a. - Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations.
- Preliminary - n. - That which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the year before entering college.
- Design - n. - A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
- Protocol - n. - A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.
- Retain - v. t. - To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
- Propaedeutics - n. - The preliminary learning connected with any art or science; preparatory instruction.
- Prerequisite - a. - Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
- Design - n. - To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
- Introduction - n. - A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature.
- Confession - n. - A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
- Promoter - n. - Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like.
- Prejudication - n. - A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute.
- Scenario - n. - A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.
- Caucus - n. - A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.
- Preliminary - a. - Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations.
- Reconnaissance - n. - The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey.
- Precognition - n. - A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.
- Preliminarily - adv. - In a preliminary manner.
- Commit - v. t. - To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- Pourparler - n. - A consultation preliminary to a treaty.
- Scrip - n. - A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.
- Prelude - v. t. - An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent composers often synonymous with overture.
- Isagogics - n. - That part of theological science directly preliminary to actual exegesis, or interpretation of the Scriptures.
- Design - n. - A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.
- Preface - n. - Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
- Outline - n. - Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech.
- Lemma - n. - A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.