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‖ preludium, præ- Now rare.|priːˈl(j)uːdɪəm|
[Late or med.L. prælūdium prelude n.]
A prelude or introduction; a preliminary.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1594/2 So the disputation began to be set a worke by y⊇ Prolocutor with a short Præludium. 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 178 Euery inequality of concoction is a præludium of crudity. 1646Crashaw Poet. Wks. (1857) 21 This knife may be the spear's praeludium. 1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 66 The Birds in short præludiums tune their throat. 1712M. Henry Comm. with God (1822) 360 An earnest of the blessedness of heaven..and a preludium to it. a1734North Examen ii. iv. §91 (1740) 276 A devillish Invention..which from the Preludiums of the Business, may be ascribed to the Lord Howard. 1885Coupland Spirit Goethe's Faust ii. 48 The preludium prefixed to the Indian play. |