单词 | prefiguration |
释义 | prefigurationn. 1. Chiefly Theology. The action of prefiguring or foreshadowing a person or thing; representation beforehand by a figure or type; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [noun] foreshowinga1050 foretokeninga1300 prefigurationa1382 premonstrationc1429 prenotationa1550 presignification1578 precursea1591 ostentation1607 precursion1615 prefigurement1708 foreshadowing1847 a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) vii. 12 Deutronomy, for soþ, þe secound lawe & the prefyguracioun [v.r. prefiguracoun; L. præfiguratio] of þe lawe of þe euangely, haþ he not so þylk þingez þat ben raþer, þat neuer þe lese all þingez ben newe of þe olde? c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 104 The sextenth chapitle of Cristes soper makes mencioune That in the manna had arst prefiguracioune. 1550 J. Veron Godly Saiyngs sig. F.i Melchisedeche brought furth bread and wyne in prefiguratyon of hym. ?1575 tr. H. Niclaes Epistolæ viii. iii. 168 The Prefiguration of the Letter: wherthrough Many of them haue made vnto themselues a wicked and naughty Conscience. 1637 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Excester 43 in Remedy Prophanenesse Some [ceremonies] were of a typicall prefiguration of things to come. 1674 W. Bates Harmony Divine Attributes xv. 295 God commanded there should be a visible mark of its necessity, in the Worship offer'd to him, and a prefiguration that it should be accomplisht by a Sacrifice eternally efficacious. 1725 A. A. Sykes Ess. upon Truth of Christian Relig. xii. 196 Whenever any one imagines, that where there is an Analogy or Similitude of Cases, there is a designed Prefiguration of future Events, he must necessarily misguide himself in indulging such groundless notions. 1797 W. Wilson Illustr. Method of Explaining New Test. xi. 232 The primary object of the Mosaic ceremonies was the prefiguration of different parts of the Christian system, that the ritual law was intended by God..to serve..for a model of the great work of Christianity. 1847 Biblical Repertory Apr. 147 How does the history of this period correspond with this prefiguration? 1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (iii. 21) 149 Slain in prefiguration of that subsequent availing sacrifice which was to take away sin. 1926 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 41 920 The Word was the prefiguration of the future man, the means by which God revealed himself in sense. 1992 D. Hampson Theol. & Feminism (BNC) 60 His resurrection is proleptic (a making present through a prefiguration of what lies in the future). 2. A person, thing, or event which prefigures or foreshadows another; a prototype, a precursor. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [noun] > instance of shadow1382 prophecya1393 foreshow1548 foreshower1555 prefiguration1579 forepointer1587 foresignification1592 premonstrance1594 prodromus1602 premonstration1610 antetype1612 prodromy1647 pre-significator1669 foretellera1716 presignification1835 foretype1848 prefigurementa1859 foreshadower18.. foreboder1876 forego1880 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 333 They denied them to be sacraments of the body and bloud of Christe, or affirmed them to bee nothing but prefigurations of the sacrament. a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi. 104 Many of the ancient Fathers..thought likewise their Sacraments to bee but prefigurations of that which ours in present doe exhibite. 1652 G. Collier Vindiciæ Thesium de Sabbato (1656) 7 Before there were any types or prefigurations of Christ. 1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 98 That the Legal Sacrifices were Allusions to, and Prefigurations of the Grand Sacrifice. 1799 A. Maclaine Disc. xviii. 355 Their worldly sanctuary was only, at best, the typical prefiguration of a more perfect dispensation, and of better things to come. 1836 Biblical Repertory Apr. 209 The entrance of the high priest once in the year into the Holy of Holies, with the blood of atonement was a lively prefiguration of the entrance of Christ into heaven with his own blood, to obtain eternal redemption for us. 1851 C. L. Eastlake Kugler's Hand-bk. Painting: Italy (ed. 2) i. i. 9 The personages and events of the Old Testament were, for the most part, regarded as prefigurations of those of the New. 1860 R. B. Warden Voter's Version Life & Char. Stephen Arnold Douglas 58 That political consistency, and order, and devotion to ideas, by which his career in general is marked, and in which a prefiguration of judicial wisdom is apparent. 1921 Biometrika 13 137 Prefigurations are found in puppies and kittens, and..not all sesamoids are associated with intensive stress. 1962 Times 4 Aug. 8/4 Commentators are generally agreed now that our Lord intended these feedings of the multitudes as dramatic presentations of his claim and acted pre-figurations of his promise. 2000 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 86/1 Tom Buchanan is a prefiguration of the ugly pseudo-scientific and pseudo-intellectual types who would mutate into Fascism over the horizon of 1929. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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