proemial

The God of the bible is a just God, but it is hard for weak flesh to discover the justice of this proemial decree, which so sentenced to servitude the children of Esau before their father's birth.

Every word I sent home in my Proemial cables might have been published without raising a blush to the cheek of the most ardent Imperialist.

Antonym: extrinsic. introduction, n. preface, proem, exordium, prelude, prolegomenon, prologue, foreword; presentation; interpolation interposition, initiation. introductory, a. preliminary, proemial, prefatory. intrude, v. infringe, invade, encroach, obtrude, interlope. intrusion, n. encroachment, obtrusion, infringement, interloping. intrusive, a. obtrusive.

It is established at present, that the proemial lines of a poem, in which the general subject is proposed, must be void of glitter and embellishment.