Definition of "preluded" [preluded]

• Simple past tense and past participle of prelude. (verb)

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• "Surrey "preluded", in a more exact sense than it could be said of"
• "I was desirous, but unable, to obey; these gleams were such as preluded the stroke by which he fell; the hour, perhaps, was the same -- I shuddered as if I had beheld, suspended over me, the exterminating sword."
• "In this novel, it is expressed in the fact that the opening scene, which takes place in an abandoned factory, is preluded by three pages of detailed description of this factory and its neighborhood -- none of which is never mentioned again."