Difference between Preceding and Prefatory

PRECEDING vs PREFATORY: ADJECTIVE

Existing or coming before
Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2.
Going before; -- opposed to following.
Existing or coming before another or others in time, place, or sequence; previous.
Preceding in time or order

Introductory, preliminary, serving as a prelude or preface.
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse.
Of, relating to, or constituting a preface; introductory. : preliminary.
Serving as an introduction or preface

Outgoing, Preparative, Anterior, Old, Preparatory, Above, Anticipatory, Introductory, Antecedent, Foregoing, Prefatory, Pre, Past, Previous, Prior

Discursive, Terse, Textual, Pithy, Adverbial, Succinct, Wordy, Hortatory, Expository, Explanatory, Aphoristic, Parenthetical, Prefatorial, Introductory, Preceding

Outgoing, Preparative, Anterior, Old, Preparatory, Above, Anticipatory, Introductory, Antecedent, Foregoing, Prefatory, Pre, Past, Previous, Prior

Discursive, Terse, Textual, Pithy, Adverbial, Succinct, Wordy, Hortatory, Expository, Explanatory, Aphoristic, Parenthetical, Prefatorial, Introductory, Preceding

Antepartum and intrapartum factors preceding neonatal Hypoxicischemic encephalopathy.
Added Mercedes Benz Workshop Manuals to preceding post.
Usually the novitiate preceding profession lasted a year.
Area Operating Expenses incurred during the preceding year.
Flights must depart after the flight preceding it.
Repeat preceding steps until shot group is centered.
Matches one or more of the preceding character.
In the preceding example, we plotted quantitative data.
There can be only one constant for the immediately preceding variable, and one constant for each element of the immediately preceding array.
GPA the preceding term, and cannot have more than one F the preceding term.

There is no prefatory material or Eusebian apparatus; only Mark has a prologue.
Jupiter disguised himself as Diana, made some prefatory remarks, and raped Callisto.
Parchment; black and red ink with coloured illuminations in the prefatory material.
II, he contributed prefatory material; the Eugenics Laboratory Lecture Series, nos.
He prefatory circumstance comer, to ease patients' concerns about recovery myrrh.
All other prefatory sections follow this same page numbering rule.
Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by C. Kegan Paul.
Ordering of Its Prefatory Miniatures According to Scriptural Sequence.
Some prefatory observations aboutcollege students also are in order.
Published also in miniature edition without prefatory pages.