præludes

Noun

 * 1) * Compiled 1858, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, volume VI, page 589:
 * As if fames and rumors were the reliques of seditions past; but they are no lesse the præludes of Seditions to come.
 * As if fames and rumors were the reliques of seditions past; but they are no lesse the præludes of Seditions to come.