prelusive
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Thomson seems to have been partial to these kind of adjectives, "effusive," "diffusive," "prelusive," &c.
From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
During an entire generation they furnished the arena for the prelusive strife of that war.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 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
What makes the matter worse is, that this happened at the very opening of the diet, and whilst the grand prelusive symphony of the whole hidden people was in full burst.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
The last words were murmured as if to himself rather than to us, and he accompanied them abstractedly with tentative, prelusive chords, which gradually grew into the most strangely moving music I have ever heard.
From A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by Sampson, George
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