prodromen.adj.

1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction sig. *2 That God sent these prodigious euents, as prodromes and forerunners of his indignation.

1643 Sober Sadness 45 These..may..prove the Prodromes..to the ruine of our Monarchy.

1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 280 Sober Morality..is like morning light reflected from the higher Clouds, and a certain Prodrome of the Sunne of Righteousnesse it self.

1706 Poems Four Last Things 30 Too few I doubt, Watch as S, Hierom did, Who e're profess'd he heard Death's last Prodrome, Awake, awake, and unto Judgment come.

1854 O. A. Brownson Spirit-rapper xxvi. 390 The path to heaven crosses the devil's territory, and error is the prodrome of truth.

1945 Times 23 May 5/6 The brilliance of the enterprise of General Slim's Fourteenth Army..attracted attention even amidst the prodromes to the overthrow of Germany.

1985 K. Spink tr. D. Lapierre City of Joy iii. lxxii. 421 The wind and rain that had been lashing Calcutta since the previous night were only precursory signals, the prodromes of the cataclysm.

1671 J. Beale Let. 13 Nov. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) IV. 222 You may have an opportunity to trye Whether Steno's Prodrome can invite him to apply his observations more distinctly.

1786 W. Cruickshank Anat. Absorbing Vessels Human Body viii. 42 Mascagni,..in his Prodrome to his History of the Lymphatics, asserts, [etc.].

1866 E. Coues (title) Prodrome of a Work on the Ornithology of Arizona Territory.

1903 Academy 17 Jan. 71/1 What is ‘Donovan’ to ‘We Two’? Prelude, prodrome, proem or introduction might be used.

1967 F. R. Bernard (title) Prodrome for a distributional check-list and bibliography of the recent marine Mollusca of the west coast of Canada.

1993 Amer. Hist. Rev. 98 909/2 Wes's book is an extended prodrome to his fascinating and quite readable short monograph on..Rostovtzeff.

1684 W. Russell Physical Treat. 108 It is rare to see any One fail under those Distempers where Convulsions have preceeded: though a Convulsion happening after those Diseases, is most frequently Mortal. For, the first is the result of Nature's strife against the Disease; but the other..ariseth from Terror of Death, of which it is a general Prodrome.]

1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) II. 169 The symptoms of invasion or accession, the prodromes of M. Deveze.

1864 J. Thomas Med. Dict. Vertigo is sometimes said to be a prodrome or precursor of apoplexy.

1958 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 24 651/1 In our case the only prodrome was a mild, lingering ‘head-cold’.

1975 Jrnl. Pediatrics 87 709 The association of arthritis, arthralgia, and various types of skin rashes, as a prodrome to viral hepatitis, although well recognized in adults, has not been well described in children.

1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) xi. 298 They knew there had to be an asymptomatic stage to the disease, and they already had received reports of what sounded like a prodrome phase involving swollen lymph nodes and fatigue.

1682 H. More Annot. Lux Orientalis 119 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. The first Predelineations and prodrome Irradiations into the matter [transl. προδρόμους ἐλλάμψεις ὕλην].