prologistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒləd͡ʒɪst/, /ˈpɹəʊləd͡ʒɪst/

名詞

prologist ‎(複数形 prologists)

1. (まれに) The writer or speaker of a prologue.
   • 1716, M. Davies, Athen. Brit. III: Diss. Drama, page 5:

     The following Play…The Prologist and Epilogist represent the whole Course of Literature.

   • 1828, d’Israeli, Chas. I, volume I, chapter xii, page 326:

     Such a prologist as Sir Dudley seemed scarcely to threaten.

   • 1873, William Lucas Collins, Plautus and Terence, chapter IV, page 65:

     The principal characters in the play appear to have been grouped in a kind of tableau on the stage while the prologue was delivered, in this as in some other plays. The prologist informs the audience that the two captives who stand in chains on his right and left, are Philocrates, a young noble of Elis, and his slave Tyndarus.

関連する語

• prologize
• prologue

参照

• “Prologist” listed on page 1,449/3 of volume VII (O–P, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray, 1908) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)