Index of English words, starting with "pr"

(1) - Prolegomenon (n.) A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.

(1) - Prolepsis (n.) The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.
(2) - Prolepsis (n.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
(3) - Prolepsis (n.) A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
(4) - Prolepsis (n.) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

(1) - Proleptic (a.) Alt. of Proleptical