Definition of "liminary" [liminary]

• Introductory or preparatory (adjective)

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• "First, she advises, establish a paper trail with pre-liminary genealogical research."
• "He argues that the pre-liminary failure of e-books is actually a good thing: The fabricated hype for e-books was an open assault on the last remaining medium for which it is still legal to freely share and distribute content."
• "They made a pre - liminary assumption, which is astonishingly naive, namely, that any searching comparison of their respec - tive dogmas allows anyone to discern clearly the truth of orthodoxy and the error of heresy."