The new imperial encyclopaedia, or, Dictionary of the sciences and arts : comprehending also the whole circle of miscellaneous literature ... . too mi-nute a detail, of being too long, precise, and circumstantial, evento a degree of tediousness. PROLOCUTOR OF THE CONVOCATION, the speakeror chairman of that assembly. See Convocation. PROLOGUE, [TTgoXoyC^,] in dramatic poetry, a discourse in-tended to advertise the audience of the subject of the |>iece, andto prepare them to enter more easily into the action,, and some-times to make an apology for the poet. PROLISION, in literature, a term .a
The new imperial encyclopaedia, or, Dictionary of the sciences and arts : comprehending also the whole circle of miscellaneous literature ... . too mi-nute a detail, of being too long, precise, and circumstantial, evento a degree of tediousness. PROLOCUTOR OF THE CONVOCATION, the speakeror chairman of that assembly. See Convocation. PROLOGUE, [TTgoXoyC^,] in dramatic poetry, a discourse in-tended to advertise the audience of the subject of the |>iece, andto prepare them to enter more easily into the action,, and some-times to make an apology for the poet. PROLISION, in literature, a term .applied to certain piecesor compositions made previously to others, by wav of preludeor exercise: thus Diomedes calls the Xulex of Virgii, andhis other opuscula, prolusions, because written before the greatones. PROMETHEUS, the son of Japetus, supposed to have beejvthe first discoverer of the art of striking fire by flint and steel;which gave rise to the table of his stealing fire from heaven : a re-nowned warrior; but whose history is iwvolved ia fable. He flou-rtshed about 1687 B, C. Promethkus, l^liOJJECTlO^of tlie SFlllKlRLE JPTLAlIh;.
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