Definition of Prelusions

1. prelusion [n] - See also: prelusion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prelusions

preloved
prelude
preluded
preluder
preluders
preludes
preludi
preludial
preluding
preludio
prelumbar
prelumirhodopsin
prelunch
preluncheon
prelusion
prelusions (current term)
prelusive
prelusively
prelusory
prem
premade
premake
premakes
premaking
premalignant
premammalian
preman
premanufacture
premanufactured
premanufactures

Literary usage of Prelusions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lyra Bicyclica: Forty Poets on the Wheel by Joseph Grinnell Dalton (1880)
"... v prelusions FROM THE POETS. In seipso totus teres atque rotundus. HORACE. And wondrous was his way, and wondrous was his coach. COWLEY. ..."

2. The judgment books by Alexander MacLeod (1865)
"Those prelusions of the consummation of all things, of which providence is so full, salute us here. The circumstances prefigure those of the judgment-day. ..."

3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Some of them perhaps to his transcendent genius would have revealed even more prelusions and have opened up yet broader as they certainly could have done ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1902)
"Perhaps those whose wisdom is veined with the most prelusions of senescence are those who can be most babyish. Some serious young men seem born old and very ..."

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