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Prelusive Essays Pri Loo Siv Adjective Introductory Rooted Latin Word

Back prelusive \pri-LOO-siv\
Front
adjective
Introductory.

[Prelusive is rooted in the Latin word praelūsiōn- which meant "a prelude."]

"Hepzibah involuntarily thought of the ghostly harmonies, prelusive of death in the family, which were attributed to the legendary Alice." - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables , 1851

Nay, which never in any other instance happened to the most fortunate poet, his very inaugural essays in verse were treated, not as prelusive  efforts of auspicious promise, but as finished works of art, entitled to take their station amongst the literature of the land..." - Thomas de Quincey, "Alexander Pope," Biographical Essays , 1850

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