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prælusive

prælusive is the obsolete form of prelusive.

Meaning of prelusive

Adjective

prelusive (comparative more prelusive, superlative most prelusive)

  1. Acting as a prelude; preliminary.
    • On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of prælusive

comparativemore prælusive
superlativemost prælusive

Questions about prælusive

What is prælusive the obsolete form of?
Prælusive is the obsolete form of prelusive.

Words near prælusive in the dictionary

  1. præliminary
  2. prælude
  3. præludes
  4. præludia
  5. præludium
  6. prælusive
  7. præmarital
  8. præmature
  9. præmia
  10. præmise
  11. præmised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prælusive (page history and authors); prelusive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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