prolegomenon
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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
So much by way of prolegomenon; now for the doctor.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
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 Jacob S. Raisin
With these prolegomena, he launched into the discussion of the terms we have offered to debtor nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
A careful and impartial perusal of that matter made it evident that the prudent course, on the whole, was to reject these prolegomena.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
Nothing could be more interesting to a student of biology than to see the study of the biological sciences laid down, as an essential part of the prolegomena of a new view of social phenomena.
From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Aids were but of the nature of prolegomena.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
These prolegomena would not perhaps alone suffice to give this teacher a claim to the title of creator of a science.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
