prefigure

[ pree-fig-yer ]

/ priˈfɪg yər /

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verb (used with object), pre·fig·ured, pre·fig·ur·ing.

to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.

to picture or represent to oneself beforehand; imagine.

Origin of prefigure

1400–50; late Middle English < Late Latin praefigūrāre. See pre-, figure (v.)

OTHER WORDS FROM prefigure

pre·fig·ur·a·tive

[pree-fig-yer-uh-tiv] /priˈfɪg yər ə tɪv/, adjective pre·fig·ur·a·tive·ly, adverb pre·fig·ur·a·tive·ness, noun pre·fig·ure·ment, noun

un·pre·fig·ured, adjective

Words nearby prefigure

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Example sentences from the Web for prefigure

The querulous, interconnected pamphlets printed in seventeenth-century Europe prefigure the culture of modern blogging.

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The Germans prefigure this better age, and are leading the rest of the world into it.

Egotism in German Philosophy |George Santayana
He felt that such a change as that might prefigure other changes still more painful and frightsome.

The Squire of Sandal-Side |Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
And now that she could begin to sit up it did prefigure recovery.

A Little Girl in Old Salem |Amanda Minnie Douglas

There is no trace of a capillitium, unless a few occasional threads in the wall of Tubulina prefigure such a structure.

The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio |A. P. Morgan
Joined eyebrows and lobeless ear have been held by learned folk to prefigure some temper, Wat!

The Men of the Moss-Hags |S. R. Crockett

British Dictionary definitions for prefigure

prefigure

/ (priːˈfɪɡə) /

verb (tr)

to represent or suggest in advance

to imagine or consider beforehand

Derived forms of prefigure

prefigurement, noun

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prefigure

verb (used with object), pre·fig·ured, pre·fig·ur·ing.

Origin of prefigure

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British Dictionary definitions for prefigure

verb (tr)

Derived forms of prefigure

BROWSE DICTIONARY

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prefigure

verb (used with object), pre·fig·ured, pre·fig·ur·ing.

Origin of prefigure

OTHER WORDS FROM prefigure

Words nearby prefigure

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verb (tr)

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British Dictionary definitions for prefigure