prolusion

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Latin prolusio, from proludere (“to prelude”).

[49] Hunter's "Prolusions," p. 9. — Shakespeare's family, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
That excellent Poem, Sir Thomas Overbvrie's Wife, illustrated by Giles Oldisworth, Nephew to the same Sir T. O._ [CO] It was most probably the fifth, as Mr. Capel, who has printed the Wife, in his very curious volume, entitled Prolusions, 8vo. — Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters, John Earle
But it was as little objected by others, as dreamed of by the poet himself, that he preferred careless and prosaic lines on rule and of forethought, or indeed that he pretended to any other art or theory of poetic diction, except that which we may all learn from Horace, Quinctilian, the admirable dialogue, De Oratoribus, generally attributed to Tacitus, or Strada’s Prolusions; if indeed natural good sense and the early study of the best models in his own language had not infused the same maxims more securely, and, if I may venture the expression, more vitally. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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