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单词 prologize
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prologizev.

Brit. /ˈprəʊləɡʌɪz/, /ˈprəʊlədʒʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈproʊləˌɡaɪz/, /ˈproʊləˌdʒaɪz/
Forms: 1600s– prologize, 1800s– prologise.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin prologizare; Greek προλογίζειν.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin prologizare to speak a prologue (1483 in a British glossarial source) or its etymon Greek προλογίζειν to speak a prologue (in scholia (medieval Greek or earlier) on Sophocles Philoctetes 1) < ancient Greek πρόλογος prologue n. + -ίζειν -ize suffix. Compare later prologuize v.With prologizer n. at Derivatives compare slightly earlier prologuizer n. With prologizing n. and adj. at Derivatives compare prologuizing n. and adj. at prologuize v. Derivatives. N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (prǫ·lŏdʒəiz) /ˈprɒlədʒaɪz/.
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).
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