Precursory

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Precursory \Pre*cur"so*ry\, a. [L. praecursorius.]
     Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something
     to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Precursory \Pre*cur"so*ry\, n.
     An introduction. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  precursory
       adj : warning of future misfortune [syn: {premonitory}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "precursory":
     antecedent, anterior, augural, chief, exordial, first, foreboding,
     foregoing, foremost, forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing,
     foretokening, forewarning, heading, headmost, heavy with meaning,
     inaugural, indicative, initiatory, intuitive, leading, meaningful,
     monitory, portentous, precautional, precautionary, precedent,
     preceding, precessional, precursive, predictive, prefatory,
     prefigurative, preindicative, preliminary, preludial, prelusive,
     premonitory, preparatory, presageful, presaging, prevenient, prior,
     prodromal, prodromic, proemial, prognostic, prognosticative,
     propaedeutic, significant, warning