prolusion

noun — 2 senses

prolusion

noun

Etymology From Latin prolusio, from proludere (“to prelude”).

1

A trial before the principal performance; a prelude.

Domestic prolusions.1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:

2

An introductory essay.

Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted the longer […]1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

Derived terms: prolusory

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