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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.

 

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