Prologuize

Alternative forms

• prologise, prologize, prologuise

Origin

prologue + -ize

Full definition of prologuize

Verb

1. (intransitive) To deliver or create a prologue, as for an oration or for a written or musical work.
• circa 1808 The Edinburgh Review, review of Marmion (poem) by , in John Louis Haney (ed.), Early Reviews of English Poets (1904):The place of the prologuizing minstrel is but ill supplied, indeed, by the epistolary dissertations which are prefixed to each book of the present poem.
• 1833, William Spalding (writer), A Letter on Shakespeare's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen, New Shakspere Society edition (1876), p. 42:The duke and his train appear,—the pedagogue prologuizes,—the clowns dance,—and their self-satisfied Coryphaeus apologizes and epiloguizes.
• 1842, Robert Browning, "Artemis Prologuizes":I am a Goddess of the ambrosial courts,And save by Here, Queen of Pride, surpassedBy none whose temples whiten this the world.