What is "preliminaries"

Usage examples of "preliminaries".

On the twentieth day of May the king closed the session with a speech, in which he told both houses that a farther convention, touching the execution of the preliminaries, had been made and communicated to him by the emperor and most christian king, and that negotiations were carrying on by the several powers engaged in the late war, in order to settle a general pacification.

By this time all the belligerent powers in Italy had agreed to the preliminaries of peace concluded between the emperor and France.

The count de Neuperg, as Imperial plenipotentiary, signed the preliminaries on the first day of September.

These hostilities were suddenly suspended, in consequence of the preliminaries signed at Aix-la-Chapelle.

Without any preliminaries, he mounted her, finding her wet and receptive.

Following the polite preliminaries, there issued from the gangling young lawyer a cry from the heart about the kind of Canada he would endeavour to build.

Years were spent in these preliminaries, and then the war with Granada absorbed the resources and the energies of the Crown.

Then Petkum wrote a letter to the marquis de Torcy, intimating, that the allies required his most christian majesty should declare, in plain and expressive terms, that he consented to all the preliminaries, except the thirty-seventh article, which stipulated a cessation of arms, in case the Spanish monarchy should be delivered to king Charles in the space of two months.

Nay, they even reserved to them selves a power of making ulterior demands after the preliminaries should be adjusted.

Rouen to the board of trade, accompanied the English minister to London, with full powers to settle the preliminaries of the treaty.

Charles, the new emperor, being at Milan, when he received a copy of the preliminaries, wrote circular letters to the electors and the princes of the empire, exhorting them to persist in their engagements to the grand alliance.

The new preliminaries were severely attacked by the whigs, who ridiculed and reviled the ministry in word and writing.

In the house of lords, the earl of Nottingham, who had now associated himself with the whigs, inveighed against the preliminaries as captious and insufficient, and offered a clause to be inserted in the address of thanks, representing to her majesty that, in the opinion of the house, no peace could be safe or honourable to Great Britain or Europe, if Spain and the West Indies should be allotted to any branch of the house of Bourbon.

Dutch adhered to the old preliminaries which Louis had formerly rejected.

Allerton, in spite of my entreaties, would not abate an hour of the stipulated time which had been agreed upon as necessary for the awful preliminaries so incomprehensible to men.