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Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a prefatory remarks or introductory observations.

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  • And yet while the curt, pithy speaker misses the point entirely, a wordy, prolegomenous babbler will often add three new offences in the process of excusing one.
  • - According to what prolegomenous pedagogical model?
  • As we are now entering upon a book in which the course of our history will oblige us to relate some matters of a more strange and surprizing kind than any which have hitherto...
  • There's no need to be prolegomenous.
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