prolegomenon
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Sovereign Nations is a group that, on its website, describes itself “as a prolegomenon to the formation of a new, and not just sentimental, conservative and Constitutional Republic.”
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2018
Instead, what emerged from the session was yet another prolegomenon to future negotiations, brokered at the very last minute—and over the objections of many other world leaders—by President Barack Obama.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015
A second prolegomenon: believe it or not, I don’t dislike Brad DeLong.
From Forbes ● Sep. 22, 2014
The play, one feels, must remain unique, for the prolegomenon cannot be rewritten while the philosophy is unchanged.
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West
He gives an account of the various sciences, natural and philosophical, as a prolegomenon to the study of theology, even of the mystic teachings of Vital's Gates of Holiness.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin
With these prolegomena, he launched into the discussion of the terms we have offered to debtor nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Westerhovius, in the prolegomena to his edition, 1726, enumerates not fewer than 248 editions of Terence previous to his time.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
In 1894 this was republished, with prolegomena, in vol. ix. of 'Collected Essays,' with the title, "Evolution and Ethics, and other Essays."
From Recent Tendencies in Ethics by William Ritchie Sorley
Thus were concluded the prolegomena to that great act of altruism which was to crown the day.
From Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies by L. P. Jacks
These prolegomena would not perhaps alone suffice to give this teacher a claim to the title of creator of a science.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
