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Prefigure

verb
(past & past part. prefigured; pres. part. prefiguring)
1.
Imagine or consider beforehand.
2.
Indicate by signs.  Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate.





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"Prefigure" Quotes from Famous Books



... meaning of wine and the real beauties of the lilies of the field as none, either on Cithaeron or Enna, has ever done. The song of Isaiah, 'He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him,' had seemed to him to prefigure himself, and in him the ...
— Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris


Words linked to "Prefigure" :   envisage, prefigurative, ideate, imagine, signal, prefiguration, conceive of, prognosticate, foretell, threaten, point, foreshow, bespeak, indicate, predict


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