prologuize
English
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- (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.
- c. 1808 The Edinburgh Review, review of Marmion by Sir Walter Scott, in John Louis Haney (ed.), Early Reviews of English Poets (1904):
References
- “prologuize”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.