prelusive
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- prælusive (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From the past participle stem of Latin praelūdere + -ive.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]prelusive (comparative more prelusive, superlative most prelusive)
- Acting as a prelude; preliminary.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!