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
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
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
But I am forgetting my subject, and using up my time and ink in the prolegomena.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
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
During the period from 1805-27 he published a collection—twenty volumes—of old Greek classics, with critical explanations and prolegomena.
From Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker by M. (Meletios) Golden
Think of the pages and pages in the catalogue: "SOAMES, ENOCH" endlessly—endless editions, commentaries, prolegomena, biographies'—but here he was interrupted by a sudden loud creak of the chair at the next table.
From Seven Men by Sir Max Beerbohm
