She saw my little table covered, preparative to my solitary dinner; and hoped, she told me, that this would be the last day that my friends would be deprived of my company at table.
Indeed, with regard to both Testaments, I consider oral and catechismal instruction as the preparativeprovided by Christ himself in the establishment of a visible Church.
The preparative letter of Pierre to Glen, plunged at once into the very heart of the matter, and was perhaps the briefest letter he had ever written him.
All these instances were produced to prove the false and scandalous tenet, that a course of sin was a betterpreparative to conversion than a life of comparative innocence.
By such a perversion of public worship, joined with an affectation of disinterested purity, that celebrated preparative for military despotism, the self-denying ordinance was introduced into the Commons.
Besides the generalpreparative of habitual knowledge, charity, and zeal, which is the chief, you should also have your particular preparations for the duties of each day.
I will close here; and take a little rest: what I have written will be a properpreparative for what shall offer by-and-by.
It cuts flegm, and it is a good preparative against a vomit.
If you take it as a preparative for an emetic, take half an ounce of it when you go to bed the night before you intend it to operate, it will work the easier, but if for any of the foregoing occasions, take it with a liquorice stick.
Peter, here's a preparative to my farther applications; and, Peter, be circumspect in giving me diligent notice what suitors seem to be peeping.
First, for preparative Or slight præludium to the greater matches, I must entreat you, that my Armellina Be match'd with Trincalo.
Primogeniture and the whole scheme of feudal dependence seems to have been an essential preparative for modern civilization: but as Ireland had escaped the legions of Rome, so she existed without the circle of feudal organization.
In the early morning the townsmen could discern that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was being offered in the camp of their besiegers as a preparative for the dangers of the day.
But for philosophy in its highest sense as the science of ultimate truths, and therefore scientia scientiarum, this mere analysis of terms is preparative only, though as a preparative discipline indispensable.
Is this, my dear, preparative to the conversation you led me to expect in the dining-room?
Immediately on becoming an ordained clergyman I procured one or two demijohns of wine as a preparative for hospitality to my clerical brethren and to visitants generally.
The records of the present Orthodox Meeting in full, as well as the following two volumes of the records of the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders at Oblong, are in the possession of William H.
A life of purity and duty there is not the least effectual preparative for a life of public work and duty; and the man who loves his home will not the less fondly love and serve his country.
The former advised the students at Glasgow that, next to Demosthenes, the study of Dante was the best preparative for the eloquence of the pulpit or the bar.
For philosophy, in its highest sense, as the science of ultimate truths, and therefore scientia scientiarum, this mere analysis of terms is preparative only, though as a preparative discipline indispensable.
Whose addresses now, thought I, is this treatment preparative to?
This preparative sweetness, with her goodness just before, confirmed my apprehensions.
A good intentional preparative to love, this pity; since, at the time, she little thought that he would not renew his offer.
A Forty Winks Nap," in an horizontal posture, is the best preparative for any extraordinary exertion of either.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preparative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: inductive; introductory; preparatory; prerequisite; provident; provisional
