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Preparative   Listen
noun
Preparative  n.  
1.
That which has the power of preparing, or previously fitting for a purpose; that which prepares. "A preparative unto sermons."
2.
That which is done in the way of preparation. "Necessary preparatives for our voyage."





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"Preparative" Quotes from Famous Books



... certainly the best preparative for the ball, if its blessings be not abused, for then you get heavy. Your true votary of Terpsichore, and of him we only speak, requires, particularly in a land of easterly winds, which cut into his cab-head at every turn of every ...
— The Young Duke • Benjamin Disraeli
... the same manner as Adam was before the Fall, namely, not by imputation, but by inhabitation or original righteousness.... 8. It is also false when some say we are righteous by faith, namely, in a preparative way in order afterwards to be righteous by the essential righteousness. At bottom this is Popish and destructive of faith.... 9. The following propositions must be rejected altogether: The obedience of Christ is called righteousness in a tropical sense; Christ justifies accidentally ...
— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente


Words linked to "Preparative" :   propaedeutic, preparatory, prepare, preceding


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