preamble

1. (intransitive) To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks.Examples: "But these things being beside my main design, I will desist from preambling and come to the materials I have collected towards a history of the Baptists in this province."; "Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac."; "So, what say we skip the preambling. Is it women? Money? Writer's block?"