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 miscellanies really stand to the novels in the relation of a sort of prolegomenon.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
Therefore have I chosen, in this prolegomenon, to unload my burden of thanks at thy feet, for the favour with which thou last kindly entertained the Tales of my Landlord.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
With these prolegomena, he launched into the discussion of the terms we have offered to debtor nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prolegomena to his scholia on Aristophanes supply us with valuable information on the Alexandrian libraries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
But I am forgetting my subject, and using up my time and ink in the prolegomena.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
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
I hope on some future occasion to treat the subject of the English Folk-tale on a larger scale and with all the necessary paraphernalia of prolegomena and excursus.
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
