preamblen.

Brit.

/ˈpriːambl/,

/prɪˈambl/, U.S.

/ˈpriˌæmb(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English preambel, Middle English preambile, Middle English preambul, Middle English– preamble, 1600s praeamble; English regional (chiefly southern) 1800s– priamble, 1800s– pryomble, 1900s– pramble; Scottish pre-1700 preamable, pre-1700 preambil, pre-1700 preambill, 1700s– preamble.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French preambule, préamble.

Etymology: < Middle French preambule, préamble (French préambule , (rare) †préamble ) preliminary statement, introductory paragraph (1314 in Old French; beginning of the 18th cent. or earlier, and frequently in modern use, with reference to legal documents (compare sense 1b); the spec. use with reference to music (compare sense 1c) is apparently rare in French before the 20th cent.), preceding or introductory fact, preliminary (beginning of the 15th cent. in Middle French; subsequently from the 19th cent.) < post-classical Latin praeambulum preliminary statement, preface (from late 12th cent. in British sources; from 14th cent. in continental sources), use as noun of neuter singular of praeambulus (adjective) going before (see preambulous adj.). Compare Catalan preàmbul (1344), Spanish preámbulo (a1385), Portuguese preâmbulo (15th cent.), Italian preambolo (14th cent. as †preambulo).

a. A preliminary or preparatory statement in speech or writing; an introductory paragraph, section, or clause; a preface, a prologue, an introduction.In quot. c1450 as mass noun: introductory remarks or material.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > introductory speech or part of speech

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prooemiumc1485

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introduction1529

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preface1532

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foretalk1565

opening statement1806

insinuance1888

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > prologue or introduction

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introduction1529

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foretalk1565

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prolegomenons1600

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isagoge1652

propylaeum1693

programma1711

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foretalking1872

programme1880

pronaos1894

peritext1977

epitext1978

c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 831 Now dame..so haue I ioye or blis, This is a long preamble [v.rr. preambel; parable] of a tale.

c1450 (?a1402) J. Trevisa tr. De Regimine Principum (Digby 233) f. 4 (MED) After certeyn preambul forseid thinges that beth nedeful to this purpos.

c1460 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Royal) (1930) 56 (MED) In this preambile shortly is comprihendid A Mery conseyte of Iohn lydgate.

a1500 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 764 (MED) A goode begynnynge requireth a good issu, A good preamble a good conclusyon.

1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 New testamentes, with anie suche annotacions or preambles.

1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 28 Being flesshid and animatid as he was bi his tutors preamble.

a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 107 Without any exordium or preamble here in the beginning of his Epistle he hits on the point straight.

1654 O. Cromwell Speech 12 Sept. in Writings & Speeches (1945) (modernized text) III. 451 That which I have to say to you now will need no preamble to let me into my discourse.

1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 2) I. Suppl. iii. 126 There needs no preamble or declaration at the Head of the leaf what the meaning of the Book is.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. i. 197 All this preamble was uttered..with such volubility of tongue..that they admired her good sense as much as her beauty.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Watchman 9 Mar. 38 Omitting the long preambles..and the whole parade of egotisms and tuisms: we shall select from each speech [etc.].

1853 E. C. Gaskell Uncle Peter i, in Fraser's Mag. Oct. 434/2 To what is all this long preamble leading, Charles?

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity 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.

1906 Internat. Radiotelegraphic Convention: Regulations (Internat. Radiotelegr. Conf., Berlin) 34 Radiotelegrams bear the service instruction ‘Radio’ in the preamble.

1962 R. Park Good Looking Women iii. 40 Ma had launched into conversation without preamble.

1988 Oxf. Art Jrnl. 11 67 This long preamble is in part an effort to forestall some of the hostility towards the title of one of the books under review.

2005 Canad. Business & Current Affairs (Nexis) 1 June 5 This book will need a preamble to explain the narrative framework.

b. Law. An introductory paragraph or section of a deed, statute, treaty, will, or other formal document, setting out its intention, scope, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal document > [noun] > paragraph or clause > introduction

preamble1579

whereas1795

1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) f. 158^v Preamble..the first parte or beginning of an act, is called the preamble of the act, which preamble is a key to open the mindes of the makers of the acte, and the mischiefes that they intende to remedy by the same.

1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1586) iii. iv. 369 Not altogether beheading them [sc. Statutes] of their preambles, Nor any whit curtailing them of their wordes.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 79 a The rehearsall or preamble of the statute is..as it were a key to open the understanding thereof.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 141 These French Lawes are too full of Preambles, Processes, Interims, and Provisoes.

1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage xi. 113 This is acknowledged in the Preamble of the Statute of the 5th of Q. Elizabeth.

1733 B. Franklin On Drunkenness 1 Feb. in Writings (1987) 215 See..the Act made in 1729, for restraining it [sc. the drinking of spirits]. The Preamble is worth transcribing.

1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 327 The preamble to the statutes, made by the first parliament of Edward the First.

1840 Penny 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.

1893 Times 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.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 339/1 The powers represented were Germany, Austria-Hungary, [etc.]..to name them in the alphabetical order adopted in the preamble to the French text of the General Act.

1985 P. Howard We Thundered Out 61/2 Blowitz called on the French Ambassador, showed him that he had got hold of a copy of the treaty, and asked for the preamble.

2004 Indian Express (Nexis) 10 July The Left parties supported the Congress and its members asserted that no individual had even a right to suggest tinkering with the Constitution's preamble.

c. In extended use, with reference to music, (poetic) birdsong, etc. Cf. prelude n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > introduction or opening

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entry1728

alap1834

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1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. X2 This musike is a preamble and introduction to the ensuing matter.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 367 With Præamble sweet Of charming symphonie they introduce Thir sacred Song.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art xlvi, in Poems (new ed.) 81 No nightingale delighteth to prolong Her low preamble all alone, More than [etc.].

1867 Times 6 Dec. 3/5 The movements proceeds in a more impassioned style, till, with a repetition of the unisonic preamble to a few bars of the opening theme, it ends.

1959 R. Myers tr. M. Pincherle Illustr. Hist. Music 220 A more complex piece consisting of a slow and solemn preamble and a canzona in several sections.

2003 Independent (Nexis) 18 Mar. He gave us a serious and expressive performance of Chopin's 24 Preludes..from the spontaneity of the preamble to the passionate grandeur of the final piece.

2. gen. A preceding or introductory fact or circumstance; a preliminary; esp. one that foreshadows what is to come; a presage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > a) preparation(s) > a preliminary action or step

introductionc1386

deductiona1535

induction?1544

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flourish1552

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preparativec1580

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foregoinga1586

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preface1589

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foreword1888

prelim1891

prelimen1898

run-in1900

opening gambit1911

prolegomenon1926

lead-in1928

pipe-openera1936

lead-up1953

intro1964

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun]

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tokeningc888

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token971

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boding1297

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bodec1374

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prognosticc1425

prophetc1430

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ostentationa1450

prenostication?a1450

prodigy?a1450

augurationc1450

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prenosticate?a1475

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presagition?c1550

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sky sign1880

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xxiv. f. xcv Of those aduersities whiche I haue recyted, as of certayne preambles [L. proemijs] and tokens before, ye maye gesse, that the tyme is not far of.

1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. Concl. sig. Hiij Thus hast thou Lord..made the period of expiring greefes, The preamble to ever fresh releeses.

a1666 R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) viii. 107 This was the preamble of the great troubles that after followed.

1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iii. 150 The first step without any preamble or preparative is downright beastliness.

1795 R. Cumberland Henry I. i. x. 77 These [sc. almonds] he deposited upon the counter, reserving them as an introductory kind of preamble to his grand arcanum now in actual projection.

1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. i. 323 In writing, the sight of the part last formed is the preamble to what comes next.

1954 J. Baldwin Go tell it on Mountain I. 35 He said nothing, and he did not smile, but watched her, wondering to what task this preamble led.

1992 J. Mitford Amer. Way of Birth ii. iii. 64 Prenatal care is universally thought to be an essential preamble to a successful outcome: midwives, obstetricians, experts here and abroad, are united in its advocacy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† preamblev.¹

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praeambulare.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin praeambulare to walk before (Vetus Latina) < classical Latin prae- pre- prefix + ambulāre ambulate v.

Obsolete. rare.

1. intransitive. To walk before or in front.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > walk before or in front

preamble1402

preambulate1598

the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > go first or in front [verb (intransitive)]

foregoc825

to go beforec1225

preamble1402

to beat a path1589

to lead the waya1593

preambulate1598

anteambulate1623

antecede1628

to lead the van1697

to take the (or a) lead1768

lead1798

to lead off1806

1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 56 Poerte preamblis to presse aforne Anticristis comyng to sleen the thridde party of men.

2. transitive. To walk along or through beforehand.

ΚΠ

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 15 To take a through view of those who have preambled this by-path.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

preamblev.²

Brit.

/ˈpriːambl/,

/prɪˈambl/, U.S.

/ˈpriˌæmb(ə)l/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: preamble n.

Etymology: < preamble n.

a. transitive. To utter or deliver by way of a preamble; to state in a preamble. In later use only with direct speech as object.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > deliver (a speech) [verb (transitive)] > introduce

preamble1566

preface1603

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xliv. f.212 After curtesie and welcoms made betwene them, the Lady preambled a certayne short discourse touching the matter.

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 164 All the execrable issues preambled in the Statute.

1908 J. London Martin Eden xxxiii. 294 ‘It's rather absurd, Mr. Eden, to have caught us in this shape,’ Mr. Ford preambled airily.

1993 Washington Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. e1 ‘You're the first president who's a Beatles fan,’ Miss Soren preambled. ‘Can't you reunite the three living Beatles and get them to play in the White House?’

b. intransitive. To make a preamble or introductory statement.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > say beforehand or introduce something

formela1400

preface1619

preamble1664

proluse1917

1664 S. Pepys Diary 15 July (1971) V. 209 Which, put together with what he preambled with yesterday, makes me think that my Lord doth truly esteem me still.

1705 J. S. City & Country Recreation 152 Whilst he is thus preaching, or preambling, the Youngsters stand gaping with their Mouths at Halfcock.

1771 Hist. Sir William Harrington II. xlvii. 190 How foolishly I preamble!

1855 C. Heavysege Revolt Tartarus v. 60 As if hundred throats Of voicing angels were preambling proudly To the full peal of meditated hymn.

1969 Times 16 Apr. 10/3 The noisiest reactions came when the Chancellor was still preambling at some length about the state of the economy and the task before him.

1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 July a2 Trible preambled with a declaration to North that ‘You have captured the imagination of the American people’.

2. transitive. To make a preamble or preliminary to; to preface. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > introduce

premit?c1425

premisec1450

infera1529

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usher1635

to usher in1662

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > write parts of composition [verb (transitive)] > introduce or furnish with prologue

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proema1716

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > write parts of composition [verb (transitive)] > introduce or furnish with prologue > write as prologue or introduction

premit?c1425

premisec1450

preface1611

preamble1628

epistle1671

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > introduce or be preliminary to

to let into1596

prologuea1616

preface1619

preludea1637

introduce1667

preamble1951

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xciii. 272 Some will preamble a Tale impertinently.

1766 R. Rolt Hist. Late War (note 106) These instructions were dated at Kensington, the 13th August 1753, and the 39th article was preambled as follows [etc.].

1927 Times 14 June 12/4 With the completion of the various fiscal measures preambled by the Budget, the country as a whole will settle down to its normal procedure.

1951 W. 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.

1980 Time 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.

2005 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 29 Aug. 4 The DPJ's manifesto is preambled by a statement stating that this nation will not stop reflecting on and apologizing for its pre-World War II colonial rule.

Derivatives

ˈpreambled adj. rare provided with a preamble; delivered by way of a preamble.

ΚΠ

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 67 [These] might haue sufficiently manifested the argument, without so long a preambled discourse.

1989 Yale Law Jrnl. 99 662 The preambled Second Amendment is ambiguous about whether it grants citizens the right to bear arms for protection of the state, against the state, or against one another.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.c1395

v.¹1402

v.²1566

单词	preamble
释义	preamblen. Brit. /ˈpriːambl/, /prɪˈambl/, U.S. /ˈpriˌæmb(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English preambel, Middle English preambile, Middle English preambul, Middle English– preamble, 1600s praeamble; English regional (chiefly southern) 1800s– priamble, 1800s– pryomble, 1900s– pramble; Scottish pre-1700 preamable, pre-1700 preambil, pre-1700 preambill, 1700s– preamble. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French preambule, préamble. Etymology: < Middle French preambule, préamble (French préambule , (rare) †préamble ) preliminary statement, introductory paragraph (1314 in Old French; beginning of the 18th cent. or earlier, and frequently in modern use, with reference to legal documents (compare sense 1b); the spec. use with reference to music (compare sense 1c) is apparently rare in French before the 20th cent.), preceding or introductory fact, preliminary (beginning of the 15th cent. in Middle French; subsequently from the 19th cent.) < post-classical Latin praeambulum preliminary statement, preface (from late 12th cent. in British sources; from 14th cent. in continental sources), use as noun of neuter singular of praeambulus (adjective) going before (see preambulous adj.). Compare Catalan preàmbul (1344), Spanish preámbulo (a1385), Portuguese preâmbulo (15th cent.), Italian preambolo (14th cent. as †preambulo). 1. a. A preliminary or preparatory statement in speech or writing; an introductory paragraph, section, or clause; a preface, a prologue, an introduction.In quot. c1450 as mass noun: introductory remarks or material. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > introductory speech or part of speech forespeechc1000 prologuec1350 preamblec1395 preambulationc1395 prooemiumc1485 prolocutiona1525 introduction1529 insinuation1532 preface1532 proem1532 foretalk1565 opening statement1806 insinuance1888 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > prologue or introduction forespeechc1000 prologuec1350 proemya1382 preamblec1395 proemc1410 exordyc1430 prolocutory1447 protocolc1450 forespeaking1480 preface1484 prooemiumc1485 preparation1526 introduction1529 induction1533 introducement1536 epistle?1548 prelude1548 proposition1553 foretalk1565 exordium1581 prolegomenons1600 inducement1605 isagoge1652 propylaeum1693 programma1711 foreword1842 foretalking1872 programme1880 pronaos1894 peritext1977 epitext1978 c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 831 Now dame..so haue I ioye or blis, This is a long preamble [v.rr. preambel; parable] of a tale. c1450 (?a1402) J. Trevisa tr. De Regimine Principum (Digby 233) f. 4 (MED) After certeyn preambul forseid thinges that beth nedeful to this purpos. c1460 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Royal) (1930) 56 (MED) In this preambile shortly is comprihendid A Mery conseyte of Iohn lydgate. a1500 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 764 (MED) A goode begynnynge requireth a good issu, A good preamble a good conclusyon. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 New testamentes, with anie suche annotacions or preambles. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 28 Being flesshid and animatid as he was bi his tutors preamble. a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 107 Without any exordium or preamble here in the beginning of his Epistle he hits on the point straight. 1654 O. Cromwell Speech 12 Sept. in Writings & Speeches (1945) (modernized text) III. 451 That which I have to say to you now will need no preamble to let me into my discourse. 1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 2) I. Suppl. iii. 126 There needs no preamble or declaration at the Head of the leaf what the meaning of the Book is. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. i. 197 All this preamble was uttered..with such volubility of tongue..that they admired her good sense as much as her beauty. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Watchman 9 Mar. 38 Omitting the long preambles..and the whole parade of egotisms and tuisms: we shall select from each speech [etc.]. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Uncle Peter i, in Fraser's Mag. Oct. 434/2 To what is all this long preamble leading, Charles? 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity 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. 1906 Internat. Radiotelegraphic Convention: Regulations (Internat. Radiotelegr. Conf., Berlin) 34 Radiotelegrams bear the service instruction ‘Radio’ in the preamble. 1962 R. Park Good Looking Women iii. 40 Ma had launched into conversation without preamble. 1988 Oxf. Art Jrnl. 11 67 This long preamble is in part an effort to forestall some of the hostility towards the title of one of the books under review. 2005 Canad. Business & Current Affairs (Nexis) 1 June 5 This book will need a preamble to explain the narrative framework. b. Law. An introductory paragraph or section of a deed, statute, treaty, will, or other formal document, setting out its intention, scope, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > [noun] > paragraph or clause > introduction preamble1579 whereas1795 1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) f. 158^v Preamble..the first parte or beginning of an act, is called the preamble of the act, which preamble is a key to open the mindes of the makers of the acte, and the mischiefes that they intende to remedy by the same. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1586) iii. iv. 369 Not altogether beheading them [sc. Statutes] of their preambles, Nor any whit curtailing them of their wordes. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 79 a The rehearsall or preamble of the statute is..as it were a key to open the understanding thereof. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 141 These French Lawes are too full of Preambles, Processes, Interims, and Provisoes. 1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage xi. 113 This is acknowledged in the Preamble of the Statute of the 5th of Q. Elizabeth. 1733 B. Franklin On Drunkenness 1 Feb. in Writings (1987) 215 See..the Act made in 1729, for restraining it [sc. the drinking of spirits]. The Preamble is worth transcribing. 1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 327 The preamble to the statutes, made by the first parliament of Edward the First. 1840 Penny 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. 1893 Times 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. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 339/1 The powers represented were Germany, Austria-Hungary, [etc.]..to name them in the alphabetical order adopted in the preamble to the French text of the General Act. 1985 P. Howard We Thundered Out 61/2 Blowitz called on the French Ambassador, showed him that he had got hold of a copy of the treaty, and asked for the preamble. 2004 Indian Express (Nexis) 10 July The Left parties supported the Congress and its members asserted that no individual had even a right to suggest tinkering with the Constitution's preamble. c. In extended use, with reference to music, (poetic) birdsong, etc. Cf. prelude n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > introduction or opening overtc1450 preamble1611 intrada1664 flourish1706 entry1728 alap1834 introduction1880 intro1923 pickup1928 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. X2 This musike is a preamble and introduction to the ensuing matter. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 367 With Præamble sweet Of charming symphonie they introduce Thir sacred Song. View more context for this quotation 1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art xlvi, in Poems (new ed.) 81 No nightingale delighteth to prolong Her low preamble all alone, More than [etc.]. 1867 Times 6 Dec. 3/5 The movements proceeds in a more impassioned style, till, with a repetition of the unisonic preamble to a few bars of the opening theme, it ends. 1959 R. Myers tr. M. Pincherle Illustr. Hist. Music 220 A more complex piece consisting of a slow and solemn preamble and a canzona in several sections. 2003 Independent (Nexis) 18 Mar. He gave us a serious and expressive performance of Chopin's 24 Preludes..from the spontaneity of the preamble to the passionate grandeur of the final piece. 2. gen. A preceding or introductory fact or circumstance; a preliminary; esp. one that foreshadows what is to come; a presage. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > a) preparation(s) > a preliminary action or step introductionc1386 deductiona1535 induction?1544 preamble1548 flourish1552 preludium1563 primordium1577 preparativec1580 exordium1581 introit1583 foregoinga1586 prologuea1586 preface1589 prelusion1597 proem1598 prolusion1601 introductory1646 preliminary1656 prelimination1667 flourishing1687 little go1842 preluding1858 foreword1888 prelim1891 prelimen1898 run-in1900 opening gambit1911 prolegomenon1926 lead-in1928 pipe-openera1936 lead-up1953 intro1964 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] foretokenc888 tokeningc888 beaconc950 token971 handsela1200 boding1297 wonder1297 bodec1374 signa1387 foreboding1387 prenostica1393 prognosticc1425 prophetc1430 prognostication?a1439 ostentationa1450 prenostication?a1450 prodigy?a1450 augurationc1450 preparative1460 prenosticate?a1475 prenosticative?a1475 prodige1482 prenosticature1490 tokener1513 weird1513 show token1535 luck1538 prognosticate1541 preamble1548 proffer1548 presagition?c1550 foreshower1555 presage1560 portent1562 ostent1570 presagie1581 omen1582 presagement1586 luck sign1587 augury1588 prognosticon1588 forerunner1589 presager1591 halfner1594 spae1596 abode1598 oss1600 assign1601 augur1603 bodement1613 predictiona1616 prognosticala1618 bespeaker1624 portender1635 pre-indicant1659 foreshadow1834 boder1846 prognosticant1880 sky sign1880 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xxiv. f. xcv Of those aduersities whiche I haue recyted, as of certayne preambles [L. proemijs] and tokens before, ye maye gesse, that the tyme is not far of. 1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. Concl. sig. Hiij Thus hast thou Lord..made the period of expiring greefes, The preamble to ever fresh releeses. a1666 R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) viii. 107 This was the preamble of the great troubles that after followed. 1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iii. 150 The first step without any preamble or preparative is downright beastliness. 1795 R. Cumberland Henry I. i. x. 77 These [sc. almonds] he deposited upon the counter, reserving them as an introductory kind of preamble to his grand arcanum now in actual projection. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. i. 323 In writing, the sight of the part last formed is the preamble to what comes next. 1954 J. Baldwin Go tell it on Mountain I. 35 He said nothing, and he did not smile, but watched her, wondering to what task this preamble led. 1992 J. Mitford Amer. Way of Birth ii. iii. 64 Prenatal care is universally thought to be an essential preamble to a successful outcome: midwives, obstetricians, experts here and abroad, are united in its advocacy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † preamblev.¹ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praeambulare. Etymology: < post-classical Latin praeambulare to walk before (Vetus Latina) < classical Latin prae- pre- prefix + ambulāre ambulate v. Obsolete. rare. 1. intransitive. To walk before or in front. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > walk before or in front preamble1402 preambulate1598 the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > go first or in front [verb (intransitive)] foregoc825 to go beforec1225 preamble1402 to beat a path1589 to lead the waya1593 preambulate1598 anteambulate1623 antecede1628 to lead the van1697 to take the (or a) lead1768 lead1798 to lead off1806 1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 56 Poerte preamblis to presse aforne Anticristis comyng to sleen the thridde party of men. 2. transitive. To walk along or through beforehand. ΚΠ 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 15 To take a through view of those who have preambled this by-path. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020). preamblev.² Brit. /ˈpriːambl/, /prɪˈambl/, U.S. /ˈpriˌæmb(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: preamble n. Etymology: < preamble n. 1. a. transitive. To utter or deliver by way of a preamble; to state in a preamble. In later use only with direct speech as object. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > deliver (a speech) [verb (transitive)] > introduce preamble1566 preface1603 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xliv. f.212 After curtesie and welcoms made betwene them, the Lady preambled a certayne short discourse touching the matter. 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 164 All the execrable issues preambled in the Statute. 1908 J. London Martin Eden xxxiii. 294 ‘It's rather absurd, Mr. Eden, to have caught us in this shape,’ Mr. Ford preambled airily. 1993 Washington Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. e1 ‘You're the first president who's a Beatles fan,’ Miss Soren preambled. ‘Can't you reunite the three living Beatles and get them to play in the White House?’ b. intransitive. To make a preamble or introductory statement. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > say beforehand or introduce something formela1400 preface1619 preamble1664 proluse1917 1664 S. Pepys Diary 15 July (1971) V. 209 Which, put together with what he preambled with yesterday, makes me think that my Lord doth truly esteem me still. 1705 J. S. City & Country Recreation 152 Whilst he is thus preaching, or preambling, the Youngsters stand gaping with their Mouths at Halfcock. 1771 Hist. Sir William Harrington II. xlvii. 190 How foolishly I preamble! 1855 C. Heavysege Revolt Tartarus v. 60 As if hundred throats Of voicing angels were preambling proudly To the full peal of meditated hymn. 1969 Times 16 Apr. 10/3 The noisiest reactions came when the Chancellor was still preambling at some length about the state of the economy and the task before him. 1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 July a2 Trible preambled with a declaration to North that ‘You have captured the imagination of the American people’. 2. transitive. To make a preamble or preliminary to; to preface. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > introduce premit?c1425 premisec1450 infera1529 preamble1628 usher1635 to usher in1662 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > write parts of composition [verb (transitive)] > introduce or furnish with prologue prefix1538 front1592 preface1603 preamble1628 perfixa1659 prologue1701 proema1716 prologize1779 premise1823 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > write parts of composition [verb (transitive)] > introduce or furnish with prologue > write as prologue or introduction premit?c1425 premisec1450 preface1611 preamble1628 epistle1671 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > introduce or be preliminary to to let into1596 prologuea1616 preface1619 preludea1637 introduce1667 preamble1951 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xciii. 272 Some will preamble a Tale impertinently. 1766 R. Rolt Hist. Late War (note 106) These instructions were dated at Kensington, the 13th August 1753, and the 39th article was preambled as follows [etc.]. 1927 Times 14 June 12/4 With the completion of the various fiscal measures preambled by the Budget, the country as a whole will settle down to its normal procedure. 1951 W. 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. 1980 Time 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. 2005 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 29 Aug. 4 The DPJ's manifesto is preambled by a statement stating that this nation will not stop reflecting on and apologizing for its pre-World War II colonial rule. Derivatives ˈpreambled adj. rare provided with a preamble; delivered by way of a preamble. ΚΠ 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 67 [These] might haue sufficiently manifested the argument, without so long a preambled discourse. 1989 Yale Law Jrnl. 99 662 The preambled Second Amendment is ambiguous about whether it grants citizens the right to bear arms for protection of the state, against the state, or against one another. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1395v.¹1402v.²1566
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