"Prolegomenon" is a word in ENGLISH

In Saxon law. A preliminary or preparatory oath, (called also “pr#juramentum,” and “juramcntum calumni#,”) which both the accuser and ac-cused …

To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking.

By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.

A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further …

One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized …

A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to …

In English parliamentary practice. In the commons, this of-flcer, always a member, is elected by. the house on the assembling …

Under the Salic law. This was a ceremony performed by a person who was too poor to pay his debt …

To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; …

In Scotch law. The negotiations preliminary to the entering into a contract

In French law. The formality to which intending litigants are subjected in cases brought before the juge de pair. The …

A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a …

An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies …

A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed …

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; …

A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, …

To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.

In the prellmlna-ries. A term ln Scotch practice, applied to the preliminary examination of a witness as to the following …

In Scotch law. Preliminaries of testimony. The preliminary examination of a wltness, before examining hlm in chief, answering to the …