单词 | prodrome |
释义 | prodromen.adj. A. n. 1. A forerunner, a precursor; (also) a premonitory event. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > antecedent or precursor forerunnerOE forridelc1000 messengerc1300 precursora1500 waymaker1574 postiliona1586 ushera1586 precedence1598 vaunt-courier1598 precedent1599 prodromus1602 ante-disposition1611 precedency1611 prodrome1611 antecedent1612 antedating1633 leading card1635 prodromy1647 antecessor1657 precursorya1660 prodromist1716 morning star1721 skirmisher1820 antecursor1850 1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction sig. *2 That God sent these prodigious euents, as prodromes and forerunners of his indignation. 1643 Sober Sadness 45 These..may..prove the Prodromes..to the ruine of our Monarchy. 1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 280 Sober Morality..is like morning light reflected from the higher Clouds, and a certain Prodrome of the Sunne of Righteousnesse it self. 1706 Poems Four Last Things 30 Too few I doubt, Watch as S, Hierom did, Who e're profess'd he heard Death's last Prodrome, Awake, awake, and unto Judgment come. 1854 O. A. Brownson Spirit-rapper xxvi. 390 The path to heaven crosses the devil's territory, and error is the prodrome of truth. 1945 Times 23 May 5/6 The brilliance of the enterprise of General Slim's Fourteenth Army..attracted attention even amidst the prodromes to the overthrow of Germany. 1985 K. Spink tr. D. Lapierre City of Joy iii. lxxii. 421 The wind and rain that had been lashing Calcutta since the previous night were only precursory signals, the prodromes of the cataclysm. 2. An introductory or preliminary treatise or book. Cf. prodromus n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > introductory or preliminary platforma1599 prolusion1627 prodromus1646 scheme1652 prodrome1671 prospectus1765 1671 J. Beale Let. 13 Nov. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) IV. 222 You may have an opportunity to trye Whether Steno's Prodrome can invite him to apply his observations more distinctly. 1786 W. Cruickshank Anat. Absorbing Vessels Human Body viii. 42 Mascagni,..in his Prodrome to his History of the Lymphatics, asserts, [etc.]. 1866 E. Coues (title) Prodrome of a Work on the Ornithology of Arizona Territory. 1903 Academy 17 Jan. 71/1 What is ‘Donovan’ to ‘We Two’? Prelude, prodrome, proem or introduction might be used. 1967 F. R. Bernard (title) Prodrome for a distributional check-list and bibliography of the recent marine Mollusca of the west coast of Canada. 1993 Amer. Hist. Rev. 98 909/2 Wes's book is an extended prodrome to his fascinating and quite readable short monograph on..Rostovtzeff. 3. Medicine. A symptom or sign, or a set of symptoms or signs, that is characteristic or premonitory of the onset of a disease; (also) an early phase of a disease in which its symptoms or signs are mild or non-specific. Cf. prodroma n., prodromus n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > premonitory symptom prodromus1678 minnings1724 prodrome1825 premonitories1832 prodroma1845 1684 W. Russell Physical Treat. 108 It is rare to see any One fail under those Distempers where Convulsions have preceeded: though a Convulsion happening after those Diseases, is most frequently Mortal. For, the first is the result of Nature's strife against the Disease; but the other..ariseth from Terror of Death, of which it is a general Prodrome.] 1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) II. 169 The symptoms of invasion or accession, the prodromes of M. Deveze. 1864 J. Thomas Med. Dict. Vertigo is sometimes said to be a prodrome or precursor of apoplexy. 1958 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 24 651/1 In our case the only prodrome was a mild, lingering ‘head-cold’. 1975 Jrnl. Pediatrics 87 709 The association of arthritis, arthralgia, and various types of skin rashes, as a prodrome to viral hepatitis, although well recognized in adults, has not been well described in children. 1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) xi. 298 They knew there had to be an asymptomatic stage to the disease, and they already had received reports of what sounded like a prodrome phase involving swollen lymph nodes and fatigue. = prodromous adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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 1682 H. More Annot. Lux Orientalis 119 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. The first Predelineations and prodrome Irradiations into the matter [transl. προδρόμους ἐλλάμψεις ὕλην]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1611 |
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