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Definition of Prelibations
1. prelibation [n] - See also: prelibation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prelibations
Literary usage of Prelibations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works ; with an Essay Biographical and Critical by Jeremy Taylor (1835)
"into our souls, and we shall have some prelibations of that happiness ; some
small glimpses, and little discoveries whereof, is all that belongs to this ..."
2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin, John Allen (1816)
"... and in this mortal and transitory life affords us some prelibations of immortal
and incorruptible blessedness: but this civil government is designed, ..."
3. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1844)
"... and in this mortal and transitory life affords us some prelibations of immortal
and incorruptible blessedness; but this civil government is designed, ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1869)
"Wo must not, however, trench on the pleasure to bo derived from tho perusal of
this memoir, by any prelibations. It is written in a strain worthy of its ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... Death-disarming sleeps infusing, prelibations, foretastes high,' And equal
thoughts to live or die. Gardener bright from Eden's bower, Tend with care ..."
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