0 present participle of preface
1 If you preface your words or actions with something else, you say or do this other thing first:
Each work is prefaced by a descriptive note and concludes with an author's note.
I should like to preface my response with the following observation.
Prefacing the turn with and presents the action and its prompted request as timely and occurring routinely next in sequence.
Such features can make the pseudocleft into a highly allusive vehicle for gently prefacing the declination component.
He has also assisted the reader by prefacing them with a lengthy and authoritative introduction.
Prefacing these case-studies are two general chapters sketching in the broad demographic, economic and social development of the metropolis, and the history of the small house.
