单词 | precursion |
释义 | precursionn. rare. The action or process of precursing or forerunning; an instance of this; = precurse n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [noun] foreshowinga1050 foretokeninga1300 prefigurationa1382 premonstrationc1429 prenotationa1550 presignification1578 precursea1591 ostentation1607 precursion1615 prefigurement1708 foreshadowing1847 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > antecedent or precursor > being a precursor precursion1615 preluding1858 1615 J. H. This Worlds Folly sig. Cv These prodigious precursions, or precursiue prodigies, should deterre each humane creature from spurning against his Creator. 1618 Owles Almanacke 57 Only if you pardon this precursion, it may so happen, that as I haue here chattered of your vernall age, so I may hereafter tell you of your winter blasts. 1701 T. Beverley Grand Apoc. Question 15 That such a State of Empire, was at the change of that from Pagan to Christian as a Precursion to it. 1817 Times 25 Aug. 4/1 (advt.) Notions of the Hindu astronomers, concerning the precursion of the equinoxes and motions of the planets. 1914 Gazette (Stevens Point, Wisconsin) 30 Sept. 1/5 If the first entertainment of the course is a precursion of what is to follow, the..ticket holders are assured of a firstclass course. 1985 R. Howard tr. R. Barthes Responsibility of Forms i. 153 Masson's semiograms, by a kind of unexpected precursion, ‘take up’ in advance the chief propositions of a theory of the text which twenty years ago did not exist. 2009 P. Boumelha in A. Poole Cambr. Compan. Eng. Novelists xv. 247 Her first effort is a collection of poems,..the aim of which is said to be ‘to justify the ways of girls to men’... The Miltonic allusion immediately invokes an awe-inspiring instance of literary precursion. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective] > precursory precursory1605 precursive1615 precurrent1628 van-currenta1657 procursive1659 precursionary1839 precursal1845 1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 217 The landlords not named in the lists of Precursionary proscription were to be regarded popular and unattainted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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