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▪ I. preamble, n.|ˈpriːæmb(ə)l, prɪˈæmb(ə)l|
[ad. F. préambule (13–14 c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. med.L. præambulum a preamble (whence also It. preambolo, Sp., Pg. preambulo), prop. neut. sing. of L. præambulus adj. (Martial) going before: see next.]
1. A preliminary statement, in speech or writing; an introductory paragraph, section, or clause; a preface, prologue, introduction.
c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 831 Now dame, quod he, so haue I ioye or blis, This is a long preamble of a tale. c1460Lydgate's Thebes (MS. Roy. 18 D. ii, lf. 147 b/1) Incipit Prologus. In this preambile shortly is comprihendid A Mery conseyte of Iohn Lydgate, Monke of Bury, declarynge how he aionyde þe sege of Thebes to the mery tallys of Caunterburye. 1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 1 New testamentes, with anie suche annotacions or preambles. a1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 107 Without any exordium or preamble here in the beginning of his Epistle he hits on the point straight. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman (1841) II. xxxii. 43 There needs no preamble or declaration at the head of the leaf what the meaning of the book is. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 29 A man..whose manner it was to say what he had to say without formula or preamble, in the fewest and simplest words.
b. spec. An introductory paragraph or part in a statute, deed, or other formal document, setting forth the grounds and intention of it.
1628Coke On Litt. 79 a, The rehearsall or preamble of the statute is..as it were a key to open the understanding thereof. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 141 These French Lawes are too full of Preambles, Processes, Interims, and Provisoes. 1772Junius Lett. lxviii. (1820) 345 The preamble to the statutes made by the first parliament of Edward the First. 1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 277/1 If the committee allow that the allegations of the preamble have been proved, they proceed to consider the bill clause by clause... There are so many grounds upon which the preamble may fail to be proved..that [etc.]. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. ix. 174 Passing of Private Bills... At the close of the general case for the promoters and opponents, the committee usually decide first whether the preamble of the bill has been proved. If they decide that it has not been proved, the bill is in general lost. 1893Times 8 May 9/3 Under the Standing Orders as amended in 1882 the preamble of all public Bills is reserved for consideration in Committee until after the clauses have been dealt with.
c. A (musical) prelude. poet.
1667Milton P.L. iii. 367 With Præamble sweet Of charming symphonie they introduce Thir sacred Song. 1832Tennyson Pal. Art 174 No nightingale delighteth to prolong Her low preamble all alone, More than [etc.].
2. gen. A preceding or introductory fact or circumstance; a preliminary; esp. one betokening that which follows; a presage, prognostic.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xxiv. 145 Of those aduersities which I haue recyted, as of certayne preambles and tokens before ye maye gesse, that the tyme is not far of. 1663Blair Autobiog. viii. (1848) 107 This was the preamble of the great troubles that after followed. 1686Burnet Trav. iii. (1750) 146 The first Step, without any Preamble or Preparative, is downright Beastliness. 1885Bain Senses & Int. iii. i. §3 (1864) 336 In writing, the sight of the part last formed is the preamble to what comes next.
▪ II. preamble, v.|prɪˈæmb(ə)l|
[In branch I, ad. L. præambulāre to walk before: see pre- A. 1 and amble v.; in branch II, f. prec. n.]
I.
†1. intr. To walk before or in front. rare—1.
1402Pol. Poems II. 56 Poerte preamblis to presse aforne Anticristis comyng, to sleen the thridde party of men.
†2. trans. To perambulate previously. Obs.
1647Ward Simp. Cobler 15 To take a through view of those who have preambled this by-path.
II.
3. a. trans. To utter or deliver by way of preamble; to state in a preamble.
1621[see preambled below]. 1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 164 All the execrable issues preambled in the Statute.
b. intr. To make a preamble or introductory statement.
1641[see preambling below]. 1664Pepys Diary 15 July, Which, put together with what he preambled with yesterday, makes me think that my Lord do truly esteem me still. 1771T. Hull Sir W. Harrington (1797) II. 199 How foolishly I preamble! 1861,1865[see preambling below].
4. trans. To make a preamble to; to preface. Also transf.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xciii. 272 Some will preamble a Tale impertinently. 1951W. Sansom Face of Innocence iv. 45 She might think this was a trick of Harry's to get her away with him, to preamble the marriage-bed. 1980Time 28 Jan. 90/1 Nouns continue to be overrun by the jargonaut: the New York Times demands stronger sourcing, meetings are preambled, situations are impacted.
Hence preˈambled ppl. a., preˈambling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 67 [These] might haue sufficiently manifested the argument, without so long a preambled discourse. 1641Milton Animadv. Wks. 1851 III. 187 Ere a foot furder we must bee content to heare a preambling boast of your valour. 1861Temple Bar Mag. III. 273 The upshot of which preambling is, that I heartily hate writing. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xxi. iv. (1872) X. 11 Well,..your account, without farther preambling. |