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prolusion

prolusion noun: a trial before the principal performance; a prelude.

Noun

prolusion (plural prolusions)

  1. A trial before the principal performance; a prelude.
    • Domestic prolusions.1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC
  2. An introductory essay.
    • Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted the longer […]1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC

Forms of prolusion

pluralprolusions

Origin of prolusion

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

Words formed from prolusion

Questions about prolusion

What does prolusion mean?
Prolusion means a trial before the principal performance; a prelude.
What part of speech is prolusion?
Prolusion is a noun.
What is the plural of prolusion?
The plural of prolusion is prolusions.

Words near prolusion in the dictionary

  1. prolotherapist
  2. prolotherapists
  3. prolotherapy
  4. proluciferin
  5. proluminescent
  6. prolusion
  7. prolusions
  8. prolusory
  9. proluvia
  10. proluvial
  11. proluvium

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