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单词 prelusory
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prelusoryadj.

Brit. /prᵻˈl(j)uːz(ə)ri/, U.S. /prəˈluzəri/
Forms: 1600s praelusory, 1600s prelusorie, 1600s– prelusory.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praelusorius.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin praelusorius preliminary (4th cent.) < classical Latin praelūs- , past participial stem of praelūdere prelude v. + -ōrius -ory suffix2. Compare earlier prelusive adj.
= prelusive adj.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > preliminary or introductory
preparatory1442
proemial1447
isagogicala1529
liminary1603
inducing1605
prelusive1605
preambling1608
prefatory?c1622
ushering1628
preambulary1630
inductory1632
introductive1638
prelusory1638
preambulous1646
preambular1647
preludial1647
preliminary1650
prefacive1651
preludious1651
introitory1652
prodromous1652
introductory1660
superliminary1675
exordiala1682
prodrome1682
prodromal1716
premisory1844
prefatiala1848
inductive1868
prolusory1868
inleading1889
prodromic1891
1638 E. Reynolds Medit. Last Supper xv. 131 Amongst the Romans their Prelusory fight with dull and blunt weapons were [sic] but introductions to their mortall and bloudy games.
1649 H. Hammond Vindic. Addresse 37 That Argument..is but prælusory and preparative.
1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling Pref. sig. b3 These are but the light prelusory skirmishes to a more dismall Slaughter.
1776 J. Dickinson 1 July in Scribner's Monthly (1876) July 293/1 Without some prelusory trials of our strength, we ought not to commit our country upon an alternative, where to recede would be infamy, and to persist might be destruction.
1876 Littell's Living Age 11 Mar. 691/1 We have received our welcome, and drunk our prelusory schnapps.
1891 C. A. Ward Oracles Nostradamus 240 After these prelusory flourishes..we are now to enter upon a more special theme.
1900 Classical Rev. 14 226/1 He has now followed up these prelusory labours by a new edition of the speech.
1983 MLN 98 1006 He had come down for a prelusory reconnaissance of New York with his then translator and disciple Anthony Wilden.

Derivatives

prelusorily adv. Obsolete rare
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1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 772/1 Prelusorily, by way of introduction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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