prolegomenon

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

So much by way of prolegomenon; now for the doctor.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann

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 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

Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, invaluable prolegomena to a History of the Elizabethan stage as yet unwritten.

From England under the Tudors by Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes

You may study and analyse the phenomena as carefully as you please; and may, as the Scottish professors did, produce, if not a scientific psychology, yet a mass of acute prolegomena to a science.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen

Thus were concluded the prolegomena to that great act of altruism which was to crown the day.

From Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies by L. P. Jacks