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
So much by way of prolegomenon; now for the doctor.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
With these prolegomena, he launched into the discussion of the terms we have offered to debtor nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Aids were but of the nature of prolegomena.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
The work contains what we may call prolegomena on each of the Four Books, and then excursus on the most difficult and disputed passages.
From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by James Legge
Coleridge never finished anything, and his works are a heap of fragments of the prolegomena to ambitious schemes.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
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
