Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Acting as a prelude; preliminary.

Etymologies

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From the past participle stem of Latin praelūdere + -ive.

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  • ...ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time...

    - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 27

    July 24, 2008