prelusive

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The last words were murmured as if to himself rather than to us, and he accompanied them abstractedly with tentative, prelusive chords, which gradually grew into the most strangely moving music I have ever heard.

From A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by Sampson, George

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 Bell, George

Even the prelusive delicacies of the present writer—the curt "Astræan allusion"—would be thought pedantic, and out of date, in these days.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

During an entire generation they furnished the arena for the prelusive strife of that war.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various

There was a fine note in Mr. Allen's earliest work; a prelusive note with the quality of the flute....

From James Lane Allen: A Sketch of his Life and Work by Unknown