Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A foretaste.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of tasting beforehand or by anticipation; a foretaste.
- n. A previous libation; an offering made beforehand, as if in libation.
Wiktionary
- n. A tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste.
- n. A pouring out, or libation, before tasting.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste.
- n. A pouring out, or libation, before tasting.
Etymologies
- Latin praelibatio, from praelibare to taste beforehand. (Wiktionary)
- Latin praelībātiō, praelībātiōn-, from praelībātus, past participle of praelībāre, to taste beforehand : prae-, pre- + lībāre, pour out, to taste. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I leave all this to the successor I pointed out in the commencement of this work, and satisfy myself merely with the prelibation, the right of the first comer to every sacrifice.”
“Honorable Mrs. Scawen at Maidwell, and packing the "apparatus criticus" into the spacious saddle-bags; and we enjoy the prelibation with which”
“The horror of life mixed itself already in earliest youth with the heavenly sweetness of life; that grief, which one in a hundred has sensibility enough to gather from the sad retrospect of life in its closing stage, for me shed its dews as a prelibation upon the fountains of life whilst yet sparkling to the morning sun.”
“Else I should plunge _in medias res_ upon a sketch of De Quincey's life; were it not a rudeness amounting to downright profanity to omit the important ceremony of prelibation, and that at a banquet to which, implicitly, gods are invited.”
“The party who dug the parson out after a snow-storm, verily got their reward, a sort of prelibation of the visionary sweets of that land, flowing not, according to the Jewish notion, with milk and honey, but according to the revised version of Yankeedom, with milk and rum.”
“The party who dug the parson out after a snow-storm, verily got their reward, a sort of prelibation of the visionary sweets of that land, flowing not, according to the Jewish notion, with milk and _honey_, but according to the revised version of Yankeedom, with milk and _rum_.”
“I am sure that to them the invocation of Beelzebub is a prelibation of carnality.”
“Those influences of the Spirit which believers now enjoy are at once a prelibation or antepast of future blessedness, the same in kind though immeasurably less in degree; and a pledge of the certain enjoyment of that blessedness.”
“Here let me observe that for some time we had experienced the most uncomfortable weather, as a prelibation of our future sufferings.”
“The sorrow he felt before was only an earnest of this damnation, a taste and prelibation of future wrath.”
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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