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Introductory discourse
Answer for the clue "Introductory discourse ", 5 letters:
proem
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n. An introduction, preface or preamble.
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proem \Pro"em\, n. [L. prooemium, Gr. ?; ? before + ? way, course or strain of a song: cf. F. pro[`e]me.] Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude. Thus much may serve by way of proem. --Swift.
Usage examples of proem.
As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or to point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the title-page.
This is a mere guess: we have no information as to how the evolutions of a Proem differed from those of a regular Choral Ode.
John is regarded as the writer of the proem to the fourth Gospel, also of three brief epistles.
Even the papal envoy will understand that there is a difference between the act of a madman or a sanguinary, or perhaps only of a lost soul, and the grave proems that upright men will meet to discuss.