Word Meanings - PREFIGUREMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.
Related words: (words related to PREFIGUREMENT)
- WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - PREFIGURATIVE
Showing by prefiguration. "The prefigurative atonement." Bp. Horne. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - PREFIGURATION
The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured. A variety of prophecies and prefigurations. Norris. - PREFIGURATE
To prefigure. Grafton. - PREFIGUREMENT
The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle. - PREFIGURE
To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South. (more info) praefiguratum; prae before + figurare to figure. See Figure, and cf.