Meanings
- not comparablerarealso quasi-substantiveOccurring in or serving as a prologue.
PROLOGETIC. Description of Prison of Weltevreden [etc.…] 1
1855, Walter Murray Gibson, The Prison of Weltevreden, Contents, page ix2 more examples
The simple matter-of-fact style of the narrative is, from its unobtrusive character, more adapted for spiritual reading than the views and generalisations, and prologetic extenuations of more recent biographers.
1873, R.F. Calixte, translated by A.V.S. Sligo, The Life of the Venerable Anna Maria Taigi, page 303To this portal ascent is made by a mystic, indisputably prologetic, flight of steps.
1928, Heinrich Khunrath, translated by Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Conclusion, page 203
Origin
- Latinprologēticus
- Englishprologetic
Probably either from the Latin prologēticus or formed in English as prologue + -etic, in both cases resembling a hypothetical Ancient Greek etymon of the form *προλογητικός (prologētikós), from πρόλογος (prólogos, “prologue”) + -ητικός (-ētikós, “-etic”), a formation akin to the extant words ἀναλογητικός (analogētikós, “analogetic”) (from ἀνάλογος (análogos), whence analogue), ἀπολογητικός (apologētikós, “apologetic”) (from ἀπόλογος (apólogos), whence apologue), and ὁμολογητικός (homologētikós, “homologetic”) (from ὁμόλογος (homólogos), whence homologue). In these terms, the suffix -ητικός (-ētikós) is formed from -έω (-éō) + -τικός (-tikós).
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