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prologise

prologise is the alternative form of prologuize.

Meaning of prologuize

Verb

prologuize (third-person singular simple present prologuizes, present participle prologuizing, simple past and past participle prologuized)

  1. (intransitive) To deliver or create a prologue, as for an oration or for a written or musical work.
    • The place of the prologuizing minstrel is but ill supplied, indeed, by the epistolary dissertations which are prefixed to each book of the present poem.c. 1808, The Edinburgh Review, review of Marmion by Sir Walter Scott, in John Louis Haney (ed.), Early Reviews of English Poets (1904)

Forms of prologise

third-person singular presentprologises
present participleprologising
past participleprologised
pastprologised

Questions about prologise

What is prologise the alternative form of?
Prologise is the alternative form of prologuize.

Words near prologise in the dictionary

  1. prolocutrix
  2. prolog
  3. prologed
  4. prologetic
  5. prologing
  6. prologise
  7. prologised
  8. prologises
  9. prologising
  10. prologist
  11. prologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prologise (page history and authors); prologuize (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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