prologuen.

Brit.

/ˈprəʊlɒɡ/, U.S.

/ˈproʊˌlɔɡ/,

/ˈproʊˌlɑɡ/

Forms: Middle English prolong (transmission error), Middle English prolonge (transmission error), Middle English (1500s Scottish) proloug, Middle English–1500s prolog, Middle English–1500s prologe, Middle English–1500s prologge, Middle English–1600s prolouge, Middle English– prologue; Scottish pre-1700 prolloge, pre-1700 prologe.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prologe; Latin prologus.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French prologe, prologue (French prologue ) introductory text (c1175 in Old French as prologe , early 13th cent. as prologue ) and its etymon classical Latin prologus introduction to a play, introductory speech, preamble, person who speaks the introduction to a play < ancient Greek πρόλογος introduction to a play, in Hellenistic Greek also person who speaks the introduction to a play, in Byzantine Greek also introduction to a speech (4th cent.) < προ- pro- prefix² + λόγος speech (see Logos n.). Compare Old Occitan prolegue (mid 13th cent.), proleg (late 13th cent.), Catalan pròleg (c1272), Spanish prólogo (1250 or earlier), Portuguese prólogo (13th cent.), Italian prologo (a1292).Sense 2 is apparently not paralleled in French until later (1636). For earlier use of classical Latin prologus in an English context compare:OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) i. ii. 22 Nu ys þes prologus gehrepod (þæt ys forespræc). N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (prǫ·lǫ g) /ˈprɒlɒɡ/. This is the pronunciation given by the majority of sources up to the middle of the 19th cent.

a. The preface or introduction to a text; esp. a speech (usually in verse) forming the introduction to a play; a preamble, a preliminary discourse. Also: an introductory piece preceding a musical performance.

ΘΚΠ

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

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preface1532

proem1532

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

induction1533

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epistle?1548

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foretalk1565

exordium1581

prolegomenons1600

inducement1605

isagoge1652

propylaeum1693

programma1711

foreword1842

foretalking1872

programme1880

pronaos1894

peritext1977

epitext1978

c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 4 (MED) On þe first he setteþ a litel prolouge [Fr. prologue].

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 73 (MED) Whan the prologe is so despended, This bok schal afterward ben ended.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iv. 893 Ye..May to no long prologe [v.r. prolong] as now entende.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i Here begyneth the preface or prologue of the fyrste book.

1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. G.j As he bosteth himselfe..in his prologe.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 305 Their shallow showes, and Prologue vildly pende.

1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 53 There is not in these priuate Prayers, nor in our Common Prayer Booke any such trash, as his seuerall Prologues, and Prefaces.

?1637 T. Hobbes tr. Aristotle Briefe Art Rhetorique iii. 180 In other kinds it [sc. the Proem] resembles the Prologue of a Play.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 221 How Prologues into Prefaces decay, And those to Notes are fritter'd quite away.

1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i I'll undertake to read you the whole from beginning to end, with the Prologue and Epilogue.

1844 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. II. 74 The general Prologue [of the Canterbury Tales] is a gallery of pictures almost unmatched for their air of life and truthfulness.

1864 Times 9 Sept. 10/3 Naaman's last solo, ‘Blessed be the Lord God’, a sort of prologue to the imposing final chorus.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 184/1 Besides furnishing a prologue to Steele's comedy of The Tender Husband (1705), he admittedly gave him some assistance in its composition.

1976 Amer. Speech 1973 48 303 It is the only dog specifically mentioned in the pastoral prologue to William Gilmore Simm's Paddy McGann.

1990 Classic CD July 64/2 Charpentier's music for Le Malade Imaginaire consists of a Prologue and three intermèdes or interludes for performance between the acts.

b. In extended use and in figurative contexts: an introductory or preliminary act, event, etc.

ΘΚΠ

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

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run-in1900

opening gambit1911

prolegomenon1926

lead-in1928

pipe-openera1936

lead-up1953

intro1964

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) f. 48^v As soone as he spied Palladius, he drew his sword, and making no other prologue, let flie at him.

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. i. 151 My death..is made the Prologue to their plaie, And thousands more must follow after me.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 70 God hath provided for us certain prologues of judgement and keeps us waking with alarms.

1685 A. Behn Love Lett. between Noble-man & Sister: 2nd Pt. 149 He had already inspir'd me with curiosity, that prologue to love.

1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant ii. 26 Your visit, Sir, was intended as a Prologue to a very scurvy Play, of which Mr Mirabel and you so handsomely laid the Plot.

1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xli. 113 Accept of this address..as a prologue to more important scenes.

1849 Times 17 Aug. 6/4 The soldier on guard at Elsinore is the humble prologue to the dire catastrophe of the family of the Prince of Denmark.

1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. i. ix. 307 The second childhood of the aged may be the prologue to a second youth.

1955 Times 29 July 9/2 Parliament has risen till October 25. It is the end of the prologue.

1991 Sports Illustr. 26 Aug. 106/2 This is prologue to the final home football game of what will be a 2–8 season.

c. Cycling. A very short preliminary time trial held as the initial stage of a multistage race.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > types of race

quarter-mile1611

dead1635

diaulos1706

quarter1779

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match race1804

dash1836

sprint race1836

mile1851

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decider1858

all-ages1864

rough-up1864

hippodrome1867

distance running1868

team race1869

run-off1873

relay race1878

walk-away1879

title race1905

tortoise race1913

procession1937

stage1943

pace1968

prologue1973

1973 N.Y. Times 10 June 246/1 Merckx, who took the lead in the prologue race against the clock May 18 and never gave it up, became the first foreigner to win the Giro four times.

1977 G. Nicholson Great Bike Race ii. 35 The 1976 edition..had most of the basic characteristics of recent Tours. It began..with a brief trial Prologue at Saint-Jean-de-Monts on the west coast.

1984 Times 22 Dec. 25/6 In the tradition of Tour de France prologues, each runner will be followed by a car bearing his name.

2002 Cycling Weekly 30 Nov. 4/4 The action plan includes..seek race formulas that could attract time triallists and triathletes; for example, road races preceded by a prologue time trial.

2. The character who delivers the prologue in a play or other performance.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part

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underpart1679

epilogist1716

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old man1762

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buffo1764

extrac1777

jeune premier1817

primo buffo1826

character actor1841

utility man1849

deuteragonist1855

character comedian1857

bit playera1859

utility actor1860

serio-comic1866

juvenile lead1870

serio-comique1870

heavy1880

utility1885

thinker1886

onnagata1889

serio1889

juvenile1890

tritagonist1890

oyama1925

juve1935

1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Fj She is dressing her Prologue to send him in, trust him not.

1606 N. Breton Choice, Chance, & Change sig. G1 A spruse companion..who..as if he had bin a prologue to a play, with a wink & simper thus begins.

1625 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Induct. Book-holder. Mend your lights, Gentlemen, Master Prologue, beginne.

1761 R. Lloyd To G. Colman in Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 119 'Till, decent sables on his back (Your prologuizers all wear black) The prologue comes.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xxxix. 169 The Prologue [of China] resembles that uncouth one of Greece, that is, he tells you who he is, and what is his Errand.

1867 W. Paulding Literary Life J. K. Paulding xxiv. 364 I reproduce it [sc. the letter] here, as necessary to the connexion of what perhaps might be styled The Story of an Autograph. Enter Prologue, (per post).

1933 E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-play 13 As a rule [the players] are introduced by a Presenter... The Presenter himself is often anonymous, or has such colourless appellations as Caller, First Man..Prologue.

1954 Times 25 Nov. 5/7 Mr. William Squire, the only past student of R.A.D.A. to be singled out on this occasion, has been brought in to play the part of Prologue.

2005 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 10 Nov. 1 Carrera..plays the Prologue, or narrator role (essentially the modern-day equivalent of a Greek chorus).

Compounds

General attributive, similative, and objective, as prologue speaker, prologue writer, prologue race, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > prelude or prologue

banec1440

bannsc1440

prologue1560

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anteludea1687

1560 T. Ingelend Disobedient Child A ij b Here the Prologue speaker goeth out.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) Prol. 33 Admit me Chorus to this Historie; Who Prologue-like, your humble patience pray, Gently to heare, kindly to iudge our Play.

1682 Lenten Prol. 1 in 3rd Coll. Poems (1689) 26/1 Our Prologue-Wit grows flat: the Naps worn off.

1713 A. Pope Corr. 30 Apr. (1956) I. 175 This was the case too of the prologue-writer.

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber viii. 158 Wilks had many Excellencies; but if we leave Prologue-speaking out of the Number, he will still have enough to have made him a valuable Actor.

1762 D. Garrick in G. Colman Musical Lady Prol. sig. A4 We'll tie our Prologue-monger's hands.

1898 S. Evans Holy Graal 183 The Prologue-writer called himself Crestien.

1933 E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-play 15 The Rumour of Overton, may be helped by the use of Rumour or Fame as a prologue-speaker in more sophisticated drama.

1996 Total Sport July 80/1 Boardman..had his first crack at the Tour de France in '94, having already won the prologue race.

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

prologuev.

Brit.

/ˈprəʊlɒɡ/, U.S.

/ˈproʊˌlɔɡ/,

/ˈproʊˌlɑɡ/

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

Etymology: < prologue n. Compare Middle French prologuier (a1402), Spanish prologar (a1596; subsequently from 19th cent.), Italian prologare (a1565). N.E.D. (1908) notes that the word was formerly pronounced with stress on the second syllable.

1. transitive. To introduce; to precede (something) as an introduction; to come before or in front of.

ΘΚΠ

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

to let into1596

prologuea1616

preface1619

preludea1637

introduce1667

preamble1951

the world > space > relative position > front > be in front of [verb (transitive)]

forstanda1000

front1591

prologue1762

antecede1822

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 91 Thus he his speciall nothing euer prologues .

1680 E. Hickeringill Curse ye Meroz 9 How were our Miseries..Prologu'd with a Noise of Arbitrary Government in the Case of Ship-Money?

1762 S. Foote Orators i. 21 A smart house, prefac'd with white rails and prologu'd by a red door with a brass knocker.

1785 tr. F. de Tott Mem. I. ii. 228 The ramblings of the Imagination, which prologued the drunkenness in which I left this beatified Theriaki.

1889 Olean (N.Y.) Weekly Democrat 12 Sept. 13/5 The meeting convened with its usual formality, prologued by the charming frou frou of women's voices and gowns.

1947 L. B. Wallace Fletcher, Beaumont & Co. App. 244 Prologued on December 20, 1740, by the reappearance of As You Like It, the next ten months brought to theatregoers of this generation A Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, [etc.].

2002 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 10 While in Oxford he prologued his later work with a series on Oxford dining clubs.

†2. transitive. To spend (time) in introductory remarks. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iii. 119 I esteem the time to be almost lost or mispent which is prologued out in preambles.

3. transitive. To provide (a text) with a prologue.

ΘΚΠ

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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1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair Prol. sig. Aiii^v Our Authors, have in most their late Essays, Prologu'd their own, by damning other Plays.

1889 Sat. Rev. 21 Dec. 705/1 Mr. Austin Dobson..prologues and epilogues the selection with charming verses of his own.

1913 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 10 545 Perhaps the discussion thus far will appear to some to be very appropriately prologued by ‘a piece of Socratic quibbling’.

1960 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 30 Sept. 10/6 My first fall was for a book without words, prologued by good Carl Sandberg.

2002 Athens News Agency Newswire (Nexis) 22 Oct. The publication of the book in Greek, translated by..Nicolas Voulelis and prologued by..Sifis Polymilis.

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

单词	prologue
释义	prologuen. Brit. /ˈprəʊlɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈproʊˌlɔɡ/, /ˈproʊˌlɑɡ/ Forms: Middle English prolong (transmission error), Middle English prolonge (transmission error), Middle English (1500s Scottish) proloug, Middle English–1500s prolog, Middle English–1500s prologe, Middle English–1500s prologge, Middle English–1600s prolouge, Middle English– prologue; Scottish pre-1700 prolloge, pre-1700 prologe. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prologe; Latin prologus. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French prologe, prologue (French prologue ) introductory text (c1175 in Old French as prologe , early 13th cent. as prologue ) and its etymon classical Latin prologus introduction to a play, introductory speech, preamble, person who speaks the introduction to a play < ancient Greek πρόλογος introduction to a play, in Hellenistic Greek also person who speaks the introduction to a play, in Byzantine Greek also introduction to a speech (4th cent.) < προ- pro- prefix² + λόγος speech (see Logos n.). Compare Old Occitan prolegue (mid 13th cent.), proleg (late 13th cent.), Catalan pròleg (c1272), Spanish prólogo (1250 or earlier), Portuguese prólogo (13th cent.), Italian prologo (a1292).Sense 2 is apparently not paralleled in French until later (1636). For earlier use of classical Latin prologus in an English context compare:OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) i. ii. 22 Nu ys þes prologus gehrepod (þæt ys forespræc). N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (prǫ·lǫ g) /ˈprɒlɒɡ/. This is the pronunciation given by the majority of sources up to the middle of the 19th cent. 1. a. The preface or introduction to a text; esp. a speech (usually in verse) forming the introduction to a play; a preamble, a preliminary discourse. Also: an introductory piece preceding a musical performance. 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 c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 4 (MED) On þe first he setteþ a litel prolouge [Fr. prologue]. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 73 (MED) Whan the prologe is so despended, This bok schal afterward ben ended. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iv. 893 Ye..May to no long prologe [v.r. prolong] as now entende. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i Here begyneth the preface or prologue of the fyrste book. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. G.j As he bosteth himselfe..in his prologe. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 305 Their shallow showes, and Prologue vildly pende. View more context for this quotation 1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 53 There is not in these priuate Prayers, nor in our Common Prayer Booke any such trash, as his seuerall Prologues, and Prefaces. ?1637 T. Hobbes tr. Aristotle Briefe Art Rhetorique iii. 180 In other kinds it [sc. the Proem] resembles the Prologue of a Play. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 221 How Prologues into Prefaces decay, And those to Notes are fritter'd quite away. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i I'll undertake to read you the whole from beginning to end, with the Prologue and Epilogue. 1844 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. II. 74 The general Prologue [of the Canterbury Tales] is a gallery of pictures almost unmatched for their air of life and truthfulness. 1864 Times 9 Sept. 10/3 Naaman's last solo, ‘Blessed be the Lord God’, a sort of prologue to the imposing final chorus. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 184/1 Besides furnishing a prologue to Steele's comedy of The Tender Husband (1705), he admittedly gave him some assistance in its composition. 1976 Amer. Speech 1973 48 303 It is the only dog specifically mentioned in the pastoral prologue to William Gilmore Simm's Paddy McGann. 1990 Classic CD July 64/2 Charpentier's music for Le Malade Imaginaire consists of a Prologue and three intermèdes or interludes for performance between the acts. b. In extended use and in figurative contexts: an introductory or preliminary act, event, etc. 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 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) f. 48^v As soone as he spied Palladius, he drew his sword, and making no other prologue, let flie at him. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. i. 151 My death..is made the Prologue to their plaie, And thousands more must follow after me. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 70 God hath provided for us certain prologues of judgement and keeps us waking with alarms. 1685 A. Behn Love Lett. between Noble-man & Sister: 2nd Pt. 149 He had already inspir'd me with curiosity, that prologue to love. 1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant ii. 26 Your visit, Sir, was intended as a Prologue to a very scurvy Play, of which Mr Mirabel and you so handsomely laid the Plot. 1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xli. 113 Accept of this address..as a prologue to more important scenes. 1849 Times 17 Aug. 6/4 The soldier on guard at Elsinore is the humble prologue to the dire catastrophe of the family of the Prince of Denmark. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. i. ix. 307 The second childhood of the aged may be the prologue to a second youth. 1955 Times 29 July 9/2 Parliament has risen till October 25. It is the end of the prologue. 1991 Sports Illustr. 26 Aug. 106/2 This is prologue to the final home football game of what will be a 2–8 season. c. Cycling. A very short preliminary time trial held as the initial stage of a multistage race. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > types of race quarter-mile1611 dead1635 diaulos1706 quarter1779 dead heat1796 match race1804 dash1836 sprint race1836 mile1851 road race1852 time trial1857 decider1858 all-ages1864 rough-up1864 hippodrome1867 distance running1868 team race1869 run-off1873 relay race1878 walk-away1879 title race1905 tortoise race1913 procession1937 stage1943 pace1968 prologue1973 1973 N.Y. Times 10 June 246/1 Merckx, who took the lead in the prologue race against the clock May 18 and never gave it up, became the first foreigner to win the Giro four times. 1977 G. Nicholson Great Bike Race ii. 35 The 1976 edition..had most of the basic characteristics of recent Tours. It began..with a brief trial Prologue at Saint-Jean-de-Monts on the west coast. 1984 Times 22 Dec. 25/6 In the tradition of Tour de France prologues, each runner will be followed by a car bearing his name. 2002 Cycling Weekly 30 Nov. 4/4 The action plan includes..seek race formulas that could attract time triallists and triathletes; for example, road races preceded by a prologue time trial. 2. The character who delivers the prologue in a play or other performance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part ruffy1502 chorus1561 prologuer1570 prologue1579 turquet1625 woman actor1633 underpart1679 epilogist1716 prologist1716 epiloguizer1748 old man1762 prologuizer1762 buffo1764 extrac1777 jeune premier1817 primo buffo1826 character actor1841 utility man1849 deuteragonist1855 character comedian1857 bit playera1859 utility actor1860 serio-comic1866 juvenile lead1870 serio-comique1870 heavy1880 utility1885 thinker1886 onnagata1889 serio1889 juvenile1890 tritagonist1890 oyama1925 juve1935 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Fj She is dressing her Prologue to send him in, trust him not. 1606 N. Breton Choice, Chance, & Change sig. G1 A spruse companion..who..as if he had bin a prologue to a play, with a wink & simper thus begins. 1625 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Induct. Book-holder. Mend your lights, Gentlemen, Master Prologue, beginne. 1761 R. Lloyd To G. Colman in Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 119 'Till, decent sables on his back (Your prologuizers all wear black) The prologue comes. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xxxix. 169 The Prologue [of China] resembles that uncouth one of Greece, that is, he tells you who he is, and what is his Errand. 1867 W. Paulding Literary Life J. K. Paulding xxiv. 364 I reproduce it [sc. the letter] here, as necessary to the connexion of what perhaps might be styled The Story of an Autograph. Enter Prologue, (per post). 1933 E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-play 13 As a rule [the players] are introduced by a Presenter... The Presenter himself is often anonymous, or has such colourless appellations as Caller, First Man..Prologue. 1954 Times 25 Nov. 5/7 Mr. William Squire, the only past student of R.A.D.A. to be singled out on this occasion, has been brought in to play the part of Prologue. 2005 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 10 Nov. 1 Carrera..plays the Prologue, or narrator role (essentially the modern-day equivalent of a Greek chorus). Compounds General attributive, similative, and objective, as prologue speaker, prologue writer, prologue race, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > prelude or prologue banec1440 bannsc1440 prologue1560 prelude1616 anteludea1687 1560 T. Ingelend Disobedient Child A ij b Here the Prologue speaker goeth out. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) Prol. 33 Admit me Chorus to this Historie; Who Prologue-like, your humble patience pray, Gently to heare, kindly to iudge our Play. View more context for this quotation 1682 Lenten Prol. 1 in 3rd Coll. Poems (1689) 26/1 Our Prologue-Wit grows flat: the Naps worn off. 1713 A. Pope Corr. 30 Apr. (1956) I. 175 This was the case too of the prologue-writer. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber viii. 158 Wilks had many Excellencies; but if we leave Prologue-speaking out of the Number, he will still have enough to have made him a valuable Actor. 1762 D. Garrick in G. Colman Musical Lady Prol. sig. A4 We'll tie our Prologue-monger's hands. 1898 S. Evans Holy Graal 183 The Prologue-writer called himself Crestien. 1933 E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-play 15 The Rumour of Overton, may be helped by the use of Rumour or Fame as a prologue-speaker in more sophisticated drama. 1996 Total Sport July 80/1 Boardman..had his first crack at the Tour de France in '94, having already won the prologue race. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prologuev. Brit. /ˈprəʊlɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈproʊˌlɔɡ/, /ˈproʊˌlɑɡ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prologue n. Etymology: < prologue n. Compare Middle French prologuier (a1402), Spanish prologar (a1596; subsequently from 19th cent.), Italian prologare (a1565). N.E.D. (1908) notes that the word was formerly pronounced with stress on the second syllable. 1. transitive. To introduce; to precede (something) as an introduction; to come before or in front of. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > introduce or be preliminary to to let into1596 prologuea1616 preface1619 preludea1637 introduce1667 preamble1951 the world > space > relative position > front > be in front of [verb (transitive)] forstanda1000 front1591 prologue1762 antecede1822 a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 91 Thus he his speciall nothing euer prologues . View more context for this quotation 1680 E. Hickeringill Curse ye Meroz 9 How were our Miseries..Prologu'd with a Noise of Arbitrary Government in the Case of Ship-Money? 1762 S. Foote Orators i. 21 A smart house, prefac'd with white rails and prologu'd by a red door with a brass knocker. 1785 tr. F. de Tott Mem. I. ii. 228 The ramblings of the Imagination, which prologued the drunkenness in which I left this beatified Theriaki. 1889 Olean (N.Y.) Weekly Democrat 12 Sept. 13/5 The meeting convened with its usual formality, prologued by the charming frou frou of women's voices and gowns. 1947 L. B. Wallace Fletcher, Beaumont & Co. App. 244 Prologued on December 20, 1740, by the reappearance of As You Like It, the next ten months brought to theatregoers of this generation A Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, [etc.]. 2002 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 10 While in Oxford he prologued his later work with a series on Oxford dining clubs. †2. transitive. To spend (time) in introductory remarks. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iii. 119 I esteem the time to be almost lost or mispent which is prologued out in preambles. 3. transitive. To provide (a text) with a prologue. ΘΚΠ 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 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair Prol. sig. Aiii^v Our Authors, have in most their late Essays, Prologu'd their own, by damning other Plays. 1889 Sat. Rev. 21 Dec. 705/1 Mr. Austin Dobson..prologues and epilogues the selection with charming verses of his own. 1913 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 10 545 Perhaps the discussion thus far will appear to some to be very appropriately prologued by ‘a piece of Socratic quibbling’. 1960 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 30 Sept. 10/6 My first fall was for a book without words, prologued by good Carl Sandberg. 2002 Athens News Agency Newswire (Nexis) 22 Oct. The publication of the book in Greek, translated by..Nicolas Voulelis and prologued by..Sifis Polymilis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1350v.a1616
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