prelusive
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In Break, Break, Break, we hear a note prelusive to In Memoriam, much of which was already composed.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
At Raritan and New Brunswick, in New Jersey, and elsewhere, there had been prelusive gleams of dawn.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
Every one remembers his young, tentative, prelusive illustrations to Herrick, in which there are the prettiest glimpses, guesses and foreknowledge of the effects he was to make completely his own.
From Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James
Thomson seems to have been partial to these kind of adjectives, "effusive," "diffusive," "prelusive," &c.
From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
And scarcely have they disappeared 35 Ere the prelusive hymn is heard:— With one consent the people rejoice, Filling the church with a lofty voice!
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by William Wordsworth
