prologuize

English

Alternative forms

• prologise, prologize, prologuise

Etymology

prologue +‎ -ize

Verb

1. (intransitive) To deliver or create a prologue, as for an oration or for a written or musical work.
   • c. 1808 The Edinburgh Review, review of Marmion by Sir Walter Scott, in John Louis Haney (ed.), Early Reviews of English Poets (1904):

     The place of the prologuizing minstrel is but ill supplied, indeed, by the epistolary dissertations which are prefixed to each book of the present poem.

   • 1833, William Spaulding, A Letter on Shakespeare's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen, New Shakspere Society edition (1876), p. 42:

     The duke and his train appear,—the pedagogue prologuizes,—the clowns dance,—and their self-satisfied Coryphaeus apologizes and epiloguizes.

   • 1842, Robert Browning, "Artemis Prologuizes":

     I am a Goddess of the ambrosial courts,

     And save by Here, Queen of Pride, surpassed

     By none whose temples whiten this the world.

References

• “prologuize”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.