0 past simple and past 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.
The chapters are prefaced by a short introduction and the volume concludes with the thinnest of bibliographies.
These acknowledgments sometimes occurred alone, and sometimes prefaced a relevant move-on.
This is problematic, as it is cumbersome to teach a phenomenon when the data needs to be prefaced with a caveat.
Some chapters start with only a brief introduction whereas others are prefaced by a substantial treatise.
A lengthy contextual statement introduces each section, with individual documents being prefaced by a brief, though insightful, narrative.
In both surveys, the items were prefaced by a statement that the policies referred only to natural children of the parents.
Each section is prefaced by a brief introduction providing the theoretical background informing the choice of texts.
Answers to why-type questions may be prefaced by because, which identifies what follows as an explanation fitted to the question.
