prologuizev.

1749 G. West in tr. Pindar Odes 130 Iphigenia prologuizes.

1792 G. S. Carey Dupes of Fancy Prol. I'll tell you what—I prologuise each night.—Wit, like a Diamond, is bright and scarce.

1855 R. Browning Old Pictures in Florence xxxiv, in Men & Women II. 47 How we shall prologuise, how we shall perorate.

1872 A. C. Swinburne 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.

1935 Mod. Philol. 33 34 Seneca's ghosts present a series of terrible images for the single end of building up the horror of the matter which they are prologuizing.

1961 E. S. Le Comte Milton Dict. 73 In the first scene of Comus..the Attendant Spirit..prologuizes, indicating that he has come to guard the elect.

2000 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 20 Apr. 6 d A woman who, prologuizes Chevalier, ‘will stop at nothing..’ to obtain a black dress.

1808 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 2 [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.

1812 Ld. Byron Let. 10 Sept. (1973) II. 191 Prologuising is not my forte.

1912 J. W. Cunliff Early Eng. Classical Trag. Introd. p. lv The use of the traditional devices—the prologuizing ghost, the vision, [etc.].

1971 Classical Philol. 66 128/1 The incongruity of such official and high-flown language in the mouth of a prologuizing actor of obviously low estate.