prelusive
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Serving as a prelude; introductory; indicative of the future; premonitory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.
Examples
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So that as it cometh to pass in massive bodies, that they have certain trepidations and waverings before they fix and settle, so it seemeth that by the providence of God this monarchy, before it was to settle in your majesty and your generations (in which I hope it is now established for ever), it had these prelusive changes and varieties.
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His prelusive sentiments are sometimes far-fetched, and converge not with a natural declination into the focus of epigram.
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How came it that no aurora of early light, no prelusive murmurs of scrupulosity even from themselves, had run before this wild levanter of change?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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In the notice of so memorable a man, even the briefest prelusive flourish seems uncalled for; and so indeed it would be, if by such means it were meant simply to justify the undertaking.
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Jont had begun to tune their fiddles, and the first prelusive snapping of strings at once awakened Heman's nerves to a pleasant tingling; he was excited at the nearness of the coming joy.
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On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!
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Hepzibah involuntarily thought of the ghostly harmonies, prelusive of death in the family, which were attributed to the legendary Alice.
Note
The word 'prelusive' comes from a Latin word meaning 'to compose a prelude; attempt'.
