Prelusive vs Precursory - What's the difference?
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Acting as a prelude; preliminary.
*1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
*:On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!
Pertaining to events that will follow.
Of or pertaining to a precursor.
(medicine) A precursor; a sign of the onset of something.
Prelusive is a related term of precursory.
As adjectives the difference between prelusive and precursory
is that prelusive is acting as a prelude; preliminary while precursory is pertaining to events that will follow.As a noun precursory is
(medicine) a precursor; a sign of the onset of something.prelusive
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Anagrams
*precursory
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Adjective
(-)- precursory symptoms of a fever