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Prefatorial   Listen
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Prefatorial  adj.  Prefatory.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... appropriate some discoveries of others under cloak of a mere prefatorial reference was perhaps an expounder rather than an innovator, and had, it is shrewdly suspected, not much of his own to offer. Meanwhile, it is tolerably certain that Ctesibius was the discoverer of the principle of the siphon, of the forcing-pump, and of a pneumatic organ. An examination ...
— A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams



Words linked to "Prefatorial" :   preface, preceding, prefatory



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