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

Therefore have I chosen, in this prolegomenon, to unload my burden of thanks at thy feet, for the favour with which thou last kindly entertained the Tales of my Landlord.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott

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

From Balzac by Frederick Lawton

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1894 this was republished, with prolegomena, in vol. ix. of 'Collected Essays,' with the title, "Evolution and Ethics, and other Essays."

From Recent Tendencies in Ethics by William Ritchie Sorley

The prolegomena are entirely different from those in the other edition, and an elaborate preface is added, giving an account of several editions of the Dance of Death.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

Wolf, in his prolegomena to Homer, thought that he was dealing merely with an ingenious speculator on Homeric themes.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

Thus were concluded the prolegomena to that great act of altruism which was to crown the day.

From Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies by L. P. Jacks