prelusive

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At Raritan and New Brunswick, in New Jersey, and elsewhere, there had been prelusive gleams of dawn.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

We hope to find that the last essay, upon the "Moral Ideal," is prelusive to another effort in this direction.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

Brad and Jont had begun to tune their fiddles, and the first prelusive snapping of strings at once awakened Heman's nerves to a pleasant tingling; he was excited at the nearness of the coming joy.

From Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life by Brown, Alice

Every one remembers his young, tentative, prelusive illustrations to Herrick, in which there are the prettiest glimpses, guesses and foreknowledge of the effects he was to make completely his own.

From Picture and Text 1893 by James, Henry

I have described the gorgeousness of my expectations in those early days of my prelusive acquaintance with German literature.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James