Citations:proœmial

Adjective: of or relating to proœmia

 * 1648, Henry Hammond quoted in Miscellaneous Theological Works, John Henry Parker; Sermon IV., page #75:
 * the several failings of the second causes which we have idolized so often, the many delusions and ill successes we meet with in the world, may make some forsake those atheistical colours, and bring in proselytes to heaven, and so this contempt of the world may be a piece of proœmial piety, an usher or baptist to repentance
 * 1839, Blackwood’s Magazine, William Blackwood & Sons and T. Cadell; page #20:
 * And now, nothing hindering the mariage de raison being consummated, a nuptial dialogue takes place in public, coram populo, in which the husband manages his proœmial part so well, that Suzette is fairly birdlimed into a now affection, and, coming forward, assures the audience, as the curtain modestly falls on his marital privileges, that she has determined to live henceforth the blameless spouse of her “ brave Henri ;” and the pit as instantly determining that, such being the case, she shall receive its most unanimous support, white kid gloves are shaken in the boxes, and coloured cotton streamers wave from the gallery !
 * 1847, George Hickes, Two Treatises on the Christian Priesthood, John Henry Parker; fourth edition, page #4:
 * As for the success of either doctrine, that is in the hands of God ; but his lordship must be little acquainted with the world, if he doth not know there are considerable numbers amongst the most learned who believe both, and particularly that of the Eucharistical sacrifice, as he hath found by The Propitiatory Oblation  m, and the proœmial Dissertation of Mr. Hughes before S. Chrysost. de Sacerdotio, translated into English in the Appendix  n  ; and may also find by the living testimonies of others I have produced  o.
 * 1887, William Wickes, A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty‐One so‐called Prose Books of the Old Testament, The Clarendon Press; page #36:
 * He will observe that the several proœmial members are variously subordinated, sometimes the first to the second, sometimes all to Athnach, &c.