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Definition of Prolegomena
1. Noun. (plural of prolegomenon) An introduction at the start of a book, usually used in plural form. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prolegomena
1. prolegomenon [n] - See also: prolegomenon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prolegomena
Literary usage of Prolegomena
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"THE prolegomena TO TISCHENDORF S NEW TESTAMENT.1 IT was a sad loss to the science
of New Testament textual criticism when its two magistri facile principes ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"Translated with prolegomena, &c., by W. Moore, MA, Rector of Appleton, late Fellow
of Magdalen College, Oxford, and HA Wilson, MA, Fellow and Librarian of ..."
3. Idola Theatri: A Criticism of Oxford Thought and Thinkers from the by Henry Cecil Sturt (1906)
"The title, prolegomena to Ethics, though probably indicating with accuracy the
design with which Green started, hardly corresponds with the execution. ..."
4. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"There are learned men, to whom the history of philosophy (both ancient and modern)
is philosophy itself; for such the present prolegomena are not written. ..."
5. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"Opinions prejudicial to the authority of the originals in the prolegomena, enumerated.
The just consequences of those premises. ..."
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