Definition of "prelusive" []

• Of or serving as a prelude; introductory. (adjective)

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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."
• "Both kiddies stood -- and with prelusive spar, [2]"
• "His prelusive sentiments are sometimes far-fetched, and converge not with a natural declination into the focus of epigram."