Word Meanings - PREPARATIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By way of preparation.

Related words: (words related to PREPARATIVELY)

• PREPARATION
  The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• NONPREPARATION
  Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.