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prefigure


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Prefigure  \Pre*fig"ure\  (?;  135),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p. 
  {Prefigured};  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Prefiguring}.]  [F. 
  pr['e]figurer,  or  L.  praefigurare  praefiguratum  prae  before 
  +  figurare  to  figure.  See  {Figure},  and  cf  {Prefigurate}.] 
  To  show  suggest,  or  announce,  by  antecedent  types  and 
  similitudes;  to  foreshadow.  ``Whom  all  the  various  types 
  prefigured.''  --South. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  prefigure 
  v  :  indicate  by  signs;  "These  signs  bode  bad  news"  [syn:  {bode}, 
  {portend},  {auspicate},  {prognosticate},  {omen},  {presage}, 
  {betoken},  {foreshadow},  {augur},  {foretell},  {forecast}, 
  {predict}] 




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