† introducementn.
Obsolete.
The action of introducing; an introduction.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > prologue or introduction
forespeechc1000
prologuec1350
proemya1382
preamblec1395
proemc1410
exordyc1430
prolocutory1447
protocolc1450
forespeaking1480
preface1484
prooemiumc1485
preparation1526
introduction1529
induction1533
introducement1536
epistle?1548
prelude1548
proposition1553
foretalk1565
exordium1581
prolegomenons1600
inducement1605
isagoge1652
propylaeum1693
programma1711
foreword1842
foretalking1872
programme1880
pronaos1894
peritext1977
epitext1978
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun]
importing1568
importation1616
injection1622
introducement1638
introduction1651
introducing1657
usherage1661
usherance1711
1536 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 232 I send you a godly New Testament..Yf it wil please you to read the introducement, ye shal se marvelous things hyd in it.
1638 H. Wotton Let. 5 Dec. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 474 Your Sir Jacob Ashby is grown a great man at Court in private introducements to the King.
1651 W. Davenant Gondibert Pref. The second [act] begins with an introducement of new persons.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 205 Most believ'd it rather a dislike of some Church-men, and of some introducements of Theirs.
c1785 J. Bentham Commonplace Bk. in Wks. (1843) X. 141 The introducement of a mischief greater than the benefit.
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