prefigure : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: prefigure	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prefigure v imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured" indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" Synonym(s): bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
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[82]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. [bd]Whom all the various types prefigured.[b8] --South.