prelusion

This led to the de-institutionalization of national facilities and the prelusion of community-based care centers that were thought to provide a more flexible delivery system.

America's Homeless Vets, a Causality of Epidemic Proportions 2008

May the tradition not be a prelusion or a reflex of that man-crushing monster?

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

Thus saying, he took a heavy draught of the liquor by which he was usually inspired, and the praises of which were the prevailing subject of his song; then, after much hemming, thrumming, and prelusion, and with many queer gestures and gesticulations, he began to effuse a lyric in the following fashion: --

Fanshawe Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

So sudden and so early a prelusion of summer, it was generally feared, could not last.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

So sudden and so early a prelusion of summer, it was generally feared, could not last.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

So sudden and so early a prelusion of summer, it was generally feared, could not last.

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822