VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / prefigure

Thesaurus: prefigure

To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. v. t. To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.
  2. v. imagine or consider beforehand
  3. v. indicate, as with a sign or an omen
  4. To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South.
  5. To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types andsimilitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured."South.
  6. v:100 v. imagine or consider beforehand