Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving to introduce; introductory: sometimes followed by of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving to introduce; introductory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or serving as an
introduction
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Examples
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Mon dernier message sur le forum a été tronqué pour ne laisser que la phrase introductive “je vous remercie encore de votre intérêt”.
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And for the assertion laid down, I desire that those who despise and reproach it would attempt an answer unto the ensuing arguments whereby it is confirmed, with those others which shall be insisted on in our description of the nature of the work of regeneration itself, and that upon such grounds and principles as are not destructive of Christian religion nor introductive of atheism, before they are too confident of their success.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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A principle that in its nature and tendency is introductive of all anarchy and confusion, and with the greatest propriety deserves the encomium of the _anti-government scheme_.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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Act, in a commercial view, they think introductive of monopolies, and tending to bring on them the extensive evils thence arising.
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The truths of Christ crucified are the Christian's philosophy, and a good life is the Christian's logic; that great instrumental introductive art that must guide the mind into the former.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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"Pressure point" is an introductive instrumental written for Andy's guitar.
Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010
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The one darkness is introductive of the other; nay, they cannot be long without one another.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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Now, this were not so grievous, if it were not a step to the death to come, and a degree of it introductive to it.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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This hath a further end, and truly it is but introductive to a further end; that so a soul may be made partaker of the gift of holiness within, and have that image of
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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An introductive overview of session management functionality and the Qt API for it is available from
KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] Urwald 2009
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