The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.
Prolepsis.
The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
The initial portion of some extended thing.
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.