prolegomenon

Sovereign Nations is a group that, on its website, describes itself “as a prolegomenon to the formation of a new, and not just sentimental, conservative and Constitutional Republic.”

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2018

Instead, what emerged from the session was yet another prolegomenon to future negotiations, brokered at the very last minute—and over the objections of many other world leaders—by President Barack Obama.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015

A second prolegomenon: believe it or not, I don’t dislike Brad DeLong.

From Forbes ● Sep. 22, 2014

He gives an account of the various sciences, natural and philosophical, as a prolegomenon to the study of theology, even of the mystic teachings of Vital's Gates of Holiness.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.

So much by way of prolegomenon; now for the doctor.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

With these prolegomena, he launched into the discussion of the terms we have offered to debtor nations.

From Time Magazine Archive

You may study and analyse the phenomena as carefully as you please; and may, as the Scottish professors did, produce, if not a scientific psychology, yet a mass of acute prolegomena to a science.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, invaluable prolegomena to a History of the Elizabethan stage as yet unwritten.

From England under the Tudors by Innes, Arthur D. (Arthur Donald)

I interrupted these prolegomena, in which Mr. Jarvie was apt to be somewhat diffuse, by praying him to rely upon Mr. Owen and myself as perfectly secret and safe confidants.

From Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Westerhovius, in the prolegomena to his edition, 1726, enumerates not fewer than 248 editions of Terence previous to his time.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John