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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

According to what prolegomenous pedagogical model?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Very Short Novels] Reference

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 occurred, it may not be amiss, in the prolegomenous or introductory chapter, to say something of that species of writing which is called the marvellous.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference

There's no need to be prolegomenous.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: OEDILF.] Reference

Writing, "of which he regarded himself with justice as the founder and lawgiver; and in the" prolegomenous, or introductory Chapters "to each book -- those delightful resting-spaces where, as George Eliot says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fielding] Reference