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Definition of Proems
1. proem [n] - See also: proem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proems
Literary usage of Proems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"... and the direct, masterly art of eloquence to which he has not perfectly attained.
Good proems of 1 i «y Lysias and illustrations are afforded by those ..."
2. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"Good illustrations are afforded by those " proems," or openings, ... KrX 1 The
three pairs of proems which follow are given by Dionysius De ..."
3. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by William Young Sellar (1908)
"Virgil is much more sparing than Lucretius in the proems to his other books.
In the second book there is a brief invocation to Liber, who is introduced, ..."
4. A Short Survey of the Literature of Rabbinical and Mediæval Judaism by William Oscar Emil Oesterley, George Herbert Box (1920)
"A final word must be said about what are called the proems. These are introductions,
or prefatory remarks, which in all the more important Haggadic ..."
5. The London Medical Gazette (1850)
"... was treated by leeches, for inflammation of the iliac veins, and which latterly
had been supposed to be hernia; she being directed to proems a truss. ..."
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