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

The miscellanies really stand to the novels in the relation of a sort of prolegomenon.

From Balzac by Frederick Lawton

The play, one feels, must remain unique, for the prolegomenon cannot be rewritten while the philosophy is unchanged.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I believe, and will insist upon it hereafter in these prolegomena, that we have come to overlook this element in our conduct of administration.

From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by James Legge

The length of my prolegomena and digressions compels me to postpone this part of the subject to another occasion.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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 Sir Walter Scott

But Litton toiled over the Greek text, added copious notes as to minute variants, appallingly learned prolegomena, an index, and finally an English version in prose.

From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes