Dictionary

prolusion en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin prolusio, from proludere (“to prelude”).

Meanings

1. A trial before the principal performance; a prelude.
   • Domestic prolusions. 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
2. An introductory essay.
   • Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted the longer […] 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

prolusory