preambulating

Verb

preambulate (third-person singular simple present preambulates, present participle preambulating, simple past and past participle preambulated)

1. To walk before; figuratively, to precede.
   • “Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,” such were the two titles under which the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC