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Proheme, -heym, n. Also: -aeme. [ME and e.m.E. proheyme (Chaucer; v.rr. prohemye, -ie, prochem, -cheyn), proheim (c1475), proheme (1542), proeme (1541) OF pro(h)eme (14th c. in Godef. Compl.), mod. F. proême, L. proœmium introduction, prelude, f. the Gk.] An introductory discourse or poem; a prologue, a preface, a preamble. b. fig. A prelude. 1490 Irland Mir. MS fol. 237a.
That he [Aristotle] schawis … in the proheme of methaphisik Ib. (ed.) II 103/37. 1513 Doug. Comm. i iii 92.
As I haf said in my proheme Id. Æn. v Prol. 69.
Heyr endys the proheym And begynnys the fifte buke 1531 Bell. Boece I iii.
The proheme apon the cosmographie 1622-6 Bisset I 11/18.
The rolment of the puiris complaint preface or proheme dedicatoriefig. 1638 Baillie I 89.
The late uproares … shall be bot the proæme to the insequent tragedie