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Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.

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  1. a. Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.
  2. n. That which has the power of preparing, or previously fitting for a purpose; that which prepares.
  3. n. That which is done in the way of preparation.
  4. adj. preceding and preparing for something
  5. Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory. Laborious quest of knowledge preparative to this work. South. 1. That which has the power of preparing, or previously fitting for a purpose; that which prepares. "A preparative unto sermons." Hooker. 2. That which is done in the way of preparation. "Necessary preparatives for our voyage." Dryden.
  6. Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power ofpreparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.Laborious quest of knowledge preparative to this work. South.
  7. s preceding and preparing for something