preparatory to in English

before -, previous to -

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1. Certain festival chants, sung preparatory to the Mass itself, are called Antiphons

2. The word Ablution applies to washing some parts of the body preparatory to the performance of Prayer

3. Card: [verb] to cleanse, disentangle, and collect together (fibers) by the use of Cards preparatory to spinning.

4. Chromatid definition, one of two identical chromosomal strands into which a chromosome splits longitudinally preparatory to cell division

5. Carded definition is - cleansed and disentangled preparatory to spinning : prepared by the action of cards or a carding machine

6. Quincy returned to the Boston Navy Yard on 5 October for refit preparatory to final acceptance trials which were held from 15–18 March 1937.

7. On the night of 27–28 November, the destroyer led the four ships of Destroyer Division 43 (DesDiv 43) in a night sweep into Ormoc Bay, preparatory to American landings there.

8. Such was his Majesty the Sultan Moulay Youssef, despoiled of sacramental Burnouses and turban, and shuffling along on bare yellow-slippered feet with the gait of a stout elderly gentleman who has taken off his boots in the passage preparatory to a domestic evening.

9. Executory Agreements, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, are such contracts as rest on articles, memorandums, parol promises, or undertakings, and the like, to be performed in future, or which are entered into preparatory to more solemn and formal alienations of property

10. Section # of the UAPA provides for imprisonment for a term not less than # years but which may extend to imprisonment for life and also liable to fine against any person who conspires or attempt to commit or advocates, abets, advises or incites or knowingly facilitates the commission of a terrorist act, or any act preparatory to the commission of a terrorist act