Definition of "prologetic"

PROLOGETIC. Description of Prison of Weltevreden [etc.…] 1

1855, Walter Murray Gibson, The Prison of Weltevreden, Contents, page ix

The simple matter-of-fact style of the narrative is, from its unobtrusive character, more adapted for spiritual reading than the views and generalisations, and prologetic extenuations of more recent biographers.

1873, R.F. Calixte, translated by A.V.S. Sligo, The Life of the Venerable Anna Maria Taigi, page 303

To this portal ascent is made by a mystic, indisputably prologetic, flight of steps.

1928, Heinrich Khunrath, translated by Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Conclusion, page 203