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Prolusion

noun
1.
A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.  Synonyms: foreword, preface.
2.
Exercising in preparation for strenuous activity.  Synonyms: tune-up, warm-up.






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"Prolusion" Quotes from Famous Books



... last to Swift), his pen was altogether idle. In 1740, he did nothing but edit an edition of select Italian Poets. This year, Crousaz, a Swiss professor of note, having attacked (we think most justly) the "Essay on Man" as a mere Pagan prolusion—a thin philosophical smile cast on the Gordian knot of the mystery of the universe, instead of a sword cutting, or trying to cut, it in sunder—Warburton, a man of much talent and learning, but of more astuteness ...
— The Poetical Works Of Alexander Pope, Vol. 1 • Alexander Pope et al



Words linked to "Prolusion" :   introduction, readying, text, foreword, textual matter, preparation



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