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Definition of Prolusions
1. prolusion [n] - See also: prolusion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prolusions
Literary usage of Prolusions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester by James Joseph Sylvester (1908)
"... ON VECTORIAL COORDINATES, ETC., TOGETHER WITH A NEW THEORY OF THE ANALOGUES
TO THE CARTESIAN OVALS IN SPACE, BEING A SEQUEL TO "ASTRONOMICAL prolusions. ..."
2. Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns by Hartley Coleridge (1833)
"... prolusions) we do not remember any thing of the kind equal to these verses :
Ye time-enobled seers, whose reverend brows Full eighty winters whiten; ..."
3. The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most by Hartley Coleridge (1836)
"... prolusions) we do not remember any thing of the kind equal to these verses :
Ye tiine-enobled seers, whose reverend brows Full eighty winters whiten; ..."
4. Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: With a by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804)
"... prolusions. PAPER i. No. 115. THE greatest critics among the antients are
those who have the most excelled in all other kinds of corn- position, ..."
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