| 释义 |
prologuize, v.|ˈprɒləgaɪz, ˈprəʊl-|
See also prologize.
[f. prologue n. + -ize.]
intr. To write or deliver a prologue. Hence ˈprologuizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also ˈprologuizer.
1761Lloyd To G. Colman Poet. Wks. 1774 I. 119 'Till, decent sables on his back (Your prologuizers all wear black) The prologue comes. 1808Jeffrey in Lockhart Scott xvi. (On Marmion), The place of the prologuizing minstrel is but ill supplied..by the epistolary dissertations which are prefixed to each book of the present poem. 1812Byron Let. to Ld. Holland 10 Sept., Prologuising is not my forte. 1855Browning Old Pictures in Florence xxxiv, How we shall prologuise, how we shall perorate. 1872Swinburne Under Microscope 61 In vain would I try to play the part of a prologuizer before this latest rival of the Hellenic dramatists... He alone is fit, in Euripidean fashion, to prologuize for himself. |