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• s  serving as an introduction or preface

• But now the report's thesis that "the economic impact of strikes has been exaggerated" is soundly endorsed by Mitchell in a prefatory note: "Past steel strikes have left no .
• His chief claim to fame lies in his own workand I say this as one who has just written a short prefatory note to the new edition of Miss Wurdemann's Bright Ambush.
• The cartoon characters on the front cover, the irritatingly meaningless track names (Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head) and the menacing prefatory oboes (oboes!) make it seem .

• introductory
• prefatorial

Quotes

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• Antonin Scalia in Washington Post
  The Second Amendment's prefatory clause announces the purpose for which the right was codified: to prevent elimination of the militia,Scalia writes.