1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 664/2 All the mysteryes of the passyon were prefygurate in the olde Testament.

1557 Bible (Whittingham) Eph. ii. 12 (note) In Christe all things were accomplished, which were prefigurate in the Lawe.

1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 119 The Lordis coup..is præfigurat in the Auld Testament in mony places.

1569 N. Hemmingsen Expos. of Gospels 126 For thus sayth Augustine, Chrystes resurrection was prefigurate in our first father Adam, because like as Adam rising after sleepe, knew Eue shaped out of his seede: So Christ rising agein from the dead builded the church out of the wound of his syde.

1881 E. Mulford Republic of God v. 128 The Christ is not the prefigurate, but the real, head of humanity.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 664/2 I prefygurate, je prefigure.

1537 Inst. Christen Man (new ed.) E v Signified..or rather prefigurated & prophecied before.

a1564 Q. Kennedy Compend. Ressonyng in 2 Eucharistic Tracts (1964) 149 The preistheid and oblatioun of Melchisedech prefigurate the preistheid of oure salueour and the sacrifice of the mes.

1597 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx (new ed.) sig. U^v The crueltie prefigurated by this sauadge Spectacle did strike to me heart such incomprehensible terror.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. To Rdr. 31 The Sacrifices immolated did prefigurate his death.

c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1922) II. 182 The twelt precius stones quhilk prefigurate the twelf trybis.

1673 T. Jordan London in Splendor 7 On his Left hand standeth a well-featured Virgin who doth prefigurate Labour.

1732 Foxe's Bk. Martyrs (rev. ed.) i. 11 Christ's body, crucified for us, was that bloody sacrifice, which the blood-shedding of all the beasts offered upon the altar in the old law did prefigurate and signify unto us.

1752 R. Strahan Serious Considerations Soul 17 Thou didst these things by thy supreme authority, as king of kings, according to certain rules of they justice, and for to prefigurate some spiritual instructions unto christians.

1874 M. Collins Transmigr. II. xiii. 203 Poseidon's bull can clearly prefigurate nothing but John Bull's fleet.

1992 M. Viroli From Politics to Reason of State 9 To prefigurate a conception of politics to which it is worth committing ourselves.