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prototypical, a.|prəʊtəʊˈtɪpɪkəl| [f. as prec.: see -ical.] Of the nature of or serving as a prototype; prototypal.
1650T. Vaughan Anthroposophia 45 The Symbollicall exteriour Descent from the Prototypicall planets to the created spheres. 1871H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 99 The leaf is the basis of the whole—the essential, and prototypical plant. 1890E. Johnson Rise of Christendom 58 The prototypical myth of Romulus slaying Remus. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 257/1 Fads, unlike fashions, may occur even in simple societies which have merely prototypical class systems. 1967D. Cooper Psychiatry & Anti-Psychiatry i. 19 In the popular mind the schizophrenic is the prototypical madman. 1978J. Sacks in P. Moore Man, Woman, & Priesthood iii. 30 The claim of Korah was the prototypical denunciation of chosenness in the name of equality. 1979Amer. Speech 1978 LIII. 281 The prototypical instances of interruption are perhaps those in which the interrupting material is semantically connected to what is interrupted. Hence ˌprotoˈtypically adv.
1890E. Johnson Rise of Christendom 379 A dramatic scene in which Christ prototypically performs the act [washing of feet]. 1957H. Read Tenth Muse xxx. 281 An attempt to find in architecture a new universal art..represented proto-typically by Greek architecture and later by Byzantine architecture. |