Prolegomenon

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prolegomenon \Prol`e*gom"e*non\, n.; pl. {Prolegomena}. [ NL.,
     fr. Gr. ?, properly neut. pass. p. pr. of ? to say
     beforehand; ? before + ? to say.]
     A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory
     discourse prefixed to a book or treatise. --D. Stokes (1659).
     Sir W. Scott.


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