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prolocution|ˈprɒl-, prəʊləʊˈkjuːʃən|
[Partly ad. late L. prōlocūtio a preamble (Claudianus Mamertus, fl. 470), n. of action from prōloquī to speak forth, declare, here identified with præloquī to speak before, premise: cf. F. prolocution a discourse (14th c.); partly f. pro-1 + locution.]
1. A preliminary or introductory speech or remark. rare.
1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 559 The causes of this commodiousnesse and conuenience are contained in the prolocution, in those friuolous and vaine speeches that are first laide downe. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xxvii, ‘But’, said he, ‘these are rather alarming prolocutions’.
†2. The use of ambiguous language so as to mislead. Obs.
1679Gavan in Speeches Jesuits 6, I do not..make use of any Equivocation, or mental Reservation, or material Prolocution, or any such like way to palliate Truth. 1691Hartcliffe Virtues 174 Their shift of Prolocution, that is, to use Words of such a sound, when they do not intend such a thing by them, as one would think, they did. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 142 If he is the Author himself, which he seems flatly to deny (yet not without some mental Reservation and material Prolocutions; for his Speech bewrayeth him, and agreeth to the Galilean turn of denyal, as well as to the Speech or Stile of the Book).
3. A speaking for or on behalf of others; acting as prolocutor or spokesman. rare.
1826G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism ii. iii. 325 Had Peter been the divinely-appointed vicar of Christ upon earth; he, no doubt, acting as the Lord's special representative, would have appointed..the new suffragan apostle... But we do not find that this was the case... From these recorded circumstances I infer, that the prolocution of the zealous and warm-hearted Peter was rather incidental than official. |