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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb prefigure has 2 senses
- prefigure(v = verb.creation) Array - imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured" is one way to conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine
- prefigure(v = verb.communication) augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate - indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" is one way to bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
Derived forms noun prefiguration2, noun prefiguration1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form adjective prefigurative1
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
prefigure, v. t. [F. préfigurer, 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. South. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
prefigure, v.tr.
1 represent beforehand by a figure or type.
2 imagine beforehand.
1 represent beforehand by a figure or type.
2 imagine beforehand.
Derivative
prefiguration n. prefigurative adj. prefigurement n.
Etymology
ME f. eccl.L praefigurare (as PRAE-, FIGURE)
THESAURUS
prefigure
adumbrate, assume, augur, be afraid, believe, betoken, body forth, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, conceive, conclude, consider, daresay, deduce, deem, demonstrate, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, dream, embody, exemplify, expect, fancy, feel, figure, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, fortune-tell, gather, grant, guess, hariolate, hint, illustrate, image, imagine, impersonate, incarnate, indicate, infer, let, let be, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, mean, mirror, opine, personate, personify, point to, predict, preindicate, presage, presign, presignal, presignify, presume, presuppose, presurmise, pretypify, prognosticate, project, prophesy, provisionally accept, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, realize, reckon, reflect, repute, say, shadow, shadow forth, signify, soothsay, speculate, spell, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, tell fortunes, tell the future, think, token, typify, understand, vaticinateROGET THESAURUS
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Prediction
VB predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, advise, forewarn, presage, augur, bode, abode, forebode, foretoken, betoken, prefigure, preshow, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to, usher in, herald, premise, announce, lower, hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope, bid fair, promise, lead one to expect, be the precursor, extrapolate, project.
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