prologuize

verb

Etymology

From prologue + -ize.

  1. derived from πρόλογος
  2. derived from prologus
  3. derived from prologue
  4. inherited from prologue
  5. suffixed as prologuize — “prologue + ize

Definitions

  1. To deliver or create a prologue, as for an oration or for a written or musical work.

    • 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.
    • The duke and his train appear,—the pedagogue prologuizes,—the clowns dance,—and their self-satisfied Coryphaeus apologizes and epiloguizes.
    • I am a Goddess of the ambrosial courts, And save by Here, Queen of Pride, surpassed By none whose temples whiten this the world.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA