Terms vs Prelusive - What's the difference?
terms | prelusive |
Acting as a prelude; preliminary.
*1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
*:On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!