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prologuize en · VERB

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Etymology

From prologue + -ize.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To deliver or create a prologue, as for an oration or for a written or musical work.
   • The duke and his train appear,—the pedagogue prologuizes,—the clowns dance,—and their self-satisfied Coryphaeus apologizes and epiloguizes. 1833, William Spaulding, A Letter on Shakespeare's Authorship of, The Two Noble Kinsmen, New Shakspere Society edition, published 1876, page 42:
   • I am a Goddess of the ambrosial courts, And save by Here, Queen of Pride, surpassed By none whose temples whiten this the world. 1842, Robert Browning, Artemis Prologuizes:
   • 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. c. 1808, The Edinburgh Review, review of Marmion by Sir Walter Scott, in John Louis Haney (ed.), Early Reviews of English Poets (1904)

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