prologuize

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Etymology

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From prologue +‎ -ize.

Verb

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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.
    • c. 1808, The Edinburgh Review, review of Marmion by Sir Walter Scott, in John Louis Haney (ed.), Early Reviews of English Poets (1904):
      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.
    • 1833, William Spaulding, A Letter on Shakespeare's Authorship of, The Two Noble Kinsmen, New Shakspere Society edition, published 1876, page 42:
      The duke and his train appear,—the pedagogue prologuizes,—the clowns dance,—and their self-satisfied Coryphaeus apologizes and epiloguizes.
    • 1842, Robert Browning, Artemis Prologuizes:
      I am a Goddess of the ambrosial courts,
      And save by Here, Queen of Pride, surpassed
      By none whose temples whiten this the world.

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