Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
proleptic .
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- adjective Anticipating the
usual time ; applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition. - adjective Previous;
antecedent . - adjective Of or pertaining to
prolepsis ;anticipative .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If this be not the meaning of Gen.i. 1, one half of the phrase is "proleptical," -- the other half not: for the creation of Earth is nowhere recorded, if not in ver.
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It is evident that the revelation here made is _proleptical_, describing a state of things identical with that which in Rev.xxi. 3, 4 (before quoted in p. 93), is said to pertain to the new heavens and the {106} new earth.
An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality James Challis 1842
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To be consistent, a tutor should take the same proleptical course with regard to the prosody of the Latin language: every Latin hyperdissyllable is manifestly accentuated according to the following law: if the penultimate be long, that syllable inevitably claims the accent; if short, inevitably it rejects it -- _i.e. _ gives it to the ante-penultimate.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Prehistoric. (from Phrontistery)
May 25, 2008