preambulous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin praeambulum, praeambulus + -ous.
Adjective
[edit]preambulous (comparative more preambulous, superlative most preambulous)
- (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.