preamble

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks.

   But these things being beside my main design, I will desist from preambling and come to the materials I have collected towards a history of the Baptists in this province.

From Middle English preamble, from Old French preambule (French préambule), from Medieval Latin praeambulum, from praeambulō (“to walk before”).

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