"prelusive" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Latin praelūdere",
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  "etymology_text": "From the past participle stem of Latin praelūdere + -ive.",
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      "form": "more prelusive",
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      "form": "most prelusive",
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  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "prelusively"
        }
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!",
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        "Acting as a prelude; preliminary."
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      "ipa": "/pɹɪˈluːsɪv/",
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  "word": "prelusive"
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      "form": "more prelusive",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!",
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