to prefigure
1
8.0
- verb
- /priːˈfɪɡjər/
- Literature
:
presagiar
- The artist's early sketches seem to prefigure the themes of her later work.
- already prefigured
- century prefigures
- prefigured a similar
It's interesting because Hegel brings up something that prefigures something later on.
- It's interesting because Hegel brings up something that prefigures something later on.
- So this all prefigures it's a it's a road.
- He says in that that's right thing which conscience does is at the same time a being for another that's prefiguring here it is a being.
Examples
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The wilderness tent prefigured the Jerusalem Temple.
Academic text (2005) -
But here's a passage from Whitman which kind of prefigures the Objectivists.
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The tune, touring the women of the world, prefigured "California Girls."
Fiction book (2001) -
And then something happens that kind of prefigures Socrates own trial and death.
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In a real sense, these unique sites that centered around the book prefigure the literary salons of the eighteenth century.
Academic text (1994) -
Z. Rosenbaum's luxurious office prefigures the scene of excess described above.
Academic text (2001) -
Culafroy's gesture removes him from the world and prefigures his death.
Academic text (1996) -
The big panoramas, by the way, and the various camera angles were prefigured by 19th-century novels.
Academic text (2010) -
While all the patriarchs pictured in the Old Testament frescoes prefigure Christ, only Joseph reveals the Savior to the chosen people.
Academic text (2006) -
As a result, this opinion both subordinates listeners' rights to corporate speech rights and prefigures the Court's ultimate trajectory of abandoning listeners' rights altogether.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
812
3.0
To say what will happen in the future
77
3.9
To know or expect something before it happens
54
2.5
To say what will probably happen using information, for example about weather or business
41
7.0
To say what will happen in the future
16
6.2
To give a small sign that something will happen in the future
16
7.2
To be a sign that something good or bad will happen
13
8.4
To show that something, often bad, will probably happen
7
5.8
To happen earlier and show what will come later
5
8.8
To show that something bad will happen
4
8.6
To be a sign that something will happen
3
9.3
To say what will happen in the future using clues
1
9.3
To be a sign of something
To say what will happen by reading signs
To know something before it happens
Antonyms
How Strong
- Formal
13
8.4
16
6.2
834
2.7
- Literature
1
8.0
136
2.0
∞
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
prefigure = figure (semi-transparent) = pre + figure
The link to 'represent beforehand' is visible, but the specialized sense 'foreshadow or indicate in advance as a sign' is not fully predictable for all learners.
Etymology
Prefigure combines pre- 'before' and figure 'form' or 'image', like the everyday word figure. Think of a small sign or picture that shows what will come 'before' it happens; that's why to prefigure is to show or be a sign of something in advance.