单词 | prologize |
释义 | prologizev. Now rare. 1. intransitive. To compose or deliver a prologue. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (intransitive)] > deliver prologue or epilogue epilogize1623 prologizea1625 epiloguizea1652 prologuize1749 a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Four Plays in One in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dddddddd/2 Prologues are Hinshers bare before the wise; Why may not then an Hinsher Prologize? a1674 J. Milton Plan of Trag. Baptistes in Wks. (1938) XVIII. 240 There may prologize the spirit of Philip Herods brother. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 782 His Lordship might as dramatically..have brought forward a god or devil to prologize as of old. 1871 R. Browning Balaustion 10 Any who could speak A chorus to the end, or prologize, Roll out a rhesis,..had prompt reward. 1958 Greece & Rome 5 110 So this Heros seems to have been a minor but real god who probably came forth from his sanctuary before the hearth to prologize. 1961 E. M. W. Tillyard Mythical Elem. Eng. Lit. ii. iv. 38 Christ, prologising outside the gates of Hell, speaks in measured tones of pity and quiet benevolence. 2. transitive. To preface with a prologue; to summarize in a prologue. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > write parts of composition [verb (transitive)] > introduce or furnish with prologue prefix1538 front1592 preface1603 preamble1628 perfixa1659 prologue1701 proema1716 prologize1779 premise1823 1779 Coll. Eng. Prologues & Epil. I. p. iii Making every actor prologize the part he is to perform, ‘I am to do, so and so’. 1924 J. B. Cabell Straws & Prayer-bks. ii. 74 The novelist, then, most appropriately prologizes his evasion of common-sense..by writing his first chapter in a robe of white. 1986 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 12 Feb. 8/5 People are prologising and promulgating what has happened to them and to their lives. Derivatives ˈprologizer n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > prologue or introduction > writer of prefacer1616 prologuist1638 prolegomenist1731 prologizer1780 prologist1828 prefator1872 programmatist1895 1780 E. Capell Notes & Var. Readings Shakespeare II. 172/2 This ‘Chorus’ is like all Shakespeare's others—a prologizer, introductive of an action that succeeds his entry immediately. 1832 Examiner 4 Mar. 149/1 The Westminster prologizer has been led into his error by the spirit and pure idiom of the English translation. 1988 Hispania 71 237 The initial stages of the dialectic pit the dual voices of the poet as prologizer against that of the poem. ˈprologizing n. and adj. ΚΠ 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 783/1 In the old dramatists of Greece, prologizing..formed..an integral portion of the structure of the piece. 1860 Times 24 Feb. 7/5 With all the naïveté of some prologizing deity in a play of Euripides. 1943 E. R. Dodds Bacchae Commentary 62 Dion. differs from Aphrodite and the other prologizing gods familiar to Eur.'s audiences. 1988 Callaloo 35 366 The outdooring ceremony..plays as crucial a role in the novel's climactic buildup as the libation ceremony plays in Naana's prologizing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1625 |
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