单词 | antelude |
释义 | † anteluden. Obsolete. rare. A prelude, a precursor; (as a mass noun) material forming a precursor.In quot. a1687: spec. a short introductory play. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > prelude or prologue banec1440 bannsc1440 prologue1560 prelude1616 anteludea1687 a1687 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) 570 The part of the Puppet or Punchinello in the Antelude of the Pageant. 1901 Nat. Mag. Sept. 642/1 The Turanians are now on the verge of national extinction, the antelude to racial annihilation. 1917 P. Nixon tr. Plautus II. 367 So much by way of antelude [L. antelogium] to this argument; now I will give you your rations of the argument itself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.a1687 |
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