prologuistn.

1638 L. Roberts Merchants Mappe of Commerce 1 Ile then bring no fain'd Eulogies t'invite The thrifty Buyers colder Appetite; Or (like a begging Prologuist) forespeake A faire Applause, for feare the Author breake.

1683 Sir J. Bramston Autobiogr. (1845) 43 The prologuist and epiloguist were committed to the Tower, for words at the conferrence.

?1762 A. M. E. Cooke King cannot Err Anti-prol. sig. A2 (stage direct.) Enter two Prologuists, one at each Door, not seeing each other.

1793 H. Boyd Indian Observ. (1795) xv. 82 The prologuist to Cato glows with the patriot flame of his author's hero.

1836 Fraser's Mag. 13 455 He resolved..to eschew the manufacture of what his prologuist calls ‘cast-iron lines’.

1907 Classical Philol. 2 11 The prologuist declares that in Graecia et Carthagii serviles nuptiae are celebrated more elaborately than the marriages of free-born men and women.

1948 K. O'Donnell Hoover Makers of Opera i. 7 The cast as he reconceived it was composed of the two gods, the monster, Daphne, Venus and, for prologuist, Ovid.

1990 Bull. Hispanic Stud. 67 414/1 Weiger claims that the 1605 prologuist is not Cervantes himself but a fictional character.