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prologuise

prologuise 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 prologuise

third-person singular presentprologuises
present participleprologuising
past participleprologuised
pastprologuised

Origin of prologuise

From prologue + -ise.

Questions about prologuise

What is prologuise the alternative form of?
Prologuise is the alternative form of prologuize.

Words near prologuise in the dictionary

  1. prologuelike
  2. prologuer
  3. prologuers
  4. prologues
  5. prologuing
  6. prologuise
  7. prologuised
  8. prologuises
  9. prologuising
  10. prologuist
  11. prologuists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prologuise (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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